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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2789198, member: 10461&quot;]I agree <i>mostly</i> with what Conder101 says.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, the show is staged, for obvious reasons, as it has to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike the rest of the utter trash on the so-called &quot;History&quot; Channel (Cajuns killing alligators, over and over and over and nothing but?&nbsp; Truckers?&nbsp; Logging? All this is <i>history</i>? Really?) at least <i>Pawn Stars</i> touches on (if only peripherally) the theme which that channel was devoted to before they jumped the shark<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark" rel="nofollow">*</a> and climbed on the &quot;rednecks sell shows&quot; bandwagon and forgot their primary mission.&nbsp; <i>Pawn Stars</i> and <i>American Pickers</i> are the symptom of the sad decline of a TV network, but I&#039;ll confess I don&#039;t hate these as much as I do their other garbage.&nbsp; At least here they emulate PBS&#039; <i>Antiques Roadshow</i> in a way, rather than some MTV series (speaking of networks that totally forgot their original mission).</p><p><br /></p><p>I reserve my utmost hatred for the <i>Swamp People</i> show, which I find not only mildly offensive but incredibly dull.&nbsp; My spouse watches it.&nbsp; I usually leave the room, but during one episode when I forgot to, the swamp people were motoring through a bayou in between gator killings and they passed an old brick fort, which they identified as &quot;Spanish&quot;.&nbsp; It was a picturesque location and I was intrigued.&nbsp; Louisiana does have a Spanish past, though the fort looked 19th century.&nbsp; I did some web searches.&nbsp; The &quot;Spanish&quot; fort had indeed been built in the 19th century - by the <i>United States</i> government.&nbsp; So there was one <i>tiny</i> hint of actual <i>history</i> in that wretched &quot;History&quot; Channel show ... and they got it wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would I buy a gimmicky slab with a label signed by Rick Whatsisface?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; Fortunately it&#039;s usually the modern stuff like Silver Eagles or generic stuff like common Morgan dollars that get this treatment, and seldom the sort of thing I like to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, NGC Ancients did put some utterly meaningless (and downright misleading) gibberish on some ancient coin labels which said &quot;Colosseum Hoard&quot; (sic), as though the coins were from some hoard found at the Roman Colosseum. They were from disparate time periods and geographical areas far too widely spread and diverse to have been plausibly found in a real ancient hoard, and web searching produced little background information on what was apparently some kind of crass marketing ploy by NGC (and likely other parties - I think I catch a whiff of telemarketer stench, there).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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