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<p>[QUOTE="Dug13, post: 3715407, member: 77843"]Anything for a fast buck. This is from 2014 ABC news article:</p><p><br /></p><p>“A man whose $50,000 coin collection was first stolen, then hocked, cannot recover it from Las Vegas' famous <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/tv/tv-show.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/tv/tv-show.htm" rel="nofollow">"Pawn Stars"</a>pawn shop. Reason: The hock shop claims it melted the coins down.”</p><p><br /></p><p>“Explains Silver and Gold's spokesperson, Laura Herlovich, "In a fast-moving shop, particularly our shop, because of its fame, you move things quickly." When coins come in, she says, they typically are in plastic cases, with a value already assigned them by a grader.</p><p><br /></p><p>"We go through them," says Herlovich. "If the grader is not someone we trust, the cases are cracked open and the coins are sent out to be melted down. That was the case here. I don't know for sure, but I believe a majority were melted down.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Why honor a man who melts coin collections for quick money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dug13, post: 3715407, member: 77843"]Anything for a fast buck. This is from 2014 ABC news article: “A man whose $50,000 coin collection was first stolen, then hocked, cannot recover it from Las Vegas' famous [URL='http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/tv/tv-show.htm']"Pawn Stars"[/URL]pawn shop. Reason: The hock shop claims it melted the coins down.” “Explains Silver and Gold's spokesperson, Laura Herlovich, "In a fast-moving shop, particularly our shop, because of its fame, you move things quickly." When coins come in, she says, they typically are in plastic cases, with a value already assigned them by a grader. "We go through them," says Herlovich. "If the grader is not someone we trust, the cases are cracked open and the coins are sent out to be melted down. That was the case here. I don't know for sure, but I believe a majority were melted down.” Why honor a man who melts coin collections for quick money.[/QUOTE]
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