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hey how you doing well how's it going
pretty good what can I do for you I just
came in to sell my helmet here how did
you get this
so we were at an estate sale me and my
sister and I came across a thousand
supercool reminded me of an old football
helmet you know from like the 1800s are
you a football player something yeah it
used to be I feel like magneto Xavier
won't get anything from me I'm here at
the pawn shop today to try and sell my
iron helmet it's really really
old-looking and kind of thought it'd
just be something cool to have I've done
a little bit of research on it and I'm
hoping to sell the helmet today here for
about 750 dollars
man this thing is sexy I mean by far no
experinece but it looks like the
craftsmanship of the time he's from the
6th 7th 8th century you know they
obviously didn't have the same type of
tools we had for precision cutting and
stuff today so it just looks really
really cool it's an Anglo Saxon helmet
and they would have been warned by you
know all kinds of people even the
Vikings would have wore something
similar like this I think this man of
iron I'm pretty buff so it doesn't seem
very heavy but I mean probably weighs
what about 5 to 8 pounds maybe I'm
thinking yeah if you're getting an arrow
shot of your head I'd rather have this
bent piece of wood there right yeah
this is gonna protect you a lot more how
much are you looking to get I want to
get 750 for it honestly I don't know if
it's worth 750 $7.50 or $7,000 I really
have no idea if it's real it could be
worth more than that I'd like to have my
guy come down test it see if it's from
the period and maybe we'll be able to
make a deal awesome sounds great all
right find something to buy just in case
you get some money from this appreciate
it thank you I'm really excited for an
expert to come in and take a look at it
I'm hoping you can authenticate it so I
can get exactly what I want
hey Bob how you doing Emily how you
doing oh it wasn't me
take a step back so that's what you
called me down for I thought you said
you had a sexy helmet oh well it was on
me so it was sexy the fire
no it's not a sexy helmet what you've
got appears to be an authentic
anglo-saxon helmet but a find one in
this condition you just don't find them
iron doesn't last for 1500 years well
you find him
they're usually powdered so my guess
this wouldn't have been found in the
ground it would have either been in a
bog or possibly a river someplace where
there wasn't a whole lot of oxygen that
could get to it to have it deteriorate
what do you got to do to test it out and
make sure it's real this little gun will
shoot a little beam of x-ray into it if
everything goes right the XRF is going
to show me the metals it's made out of
and that will tell me if there's carbon
steel which is how it would have been
made 1,500 years ago so let's take a
look at it
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but it's made 99.7 6% iron and then
traces of copper zinc chromium this is
carbon steel so this is what it should
be made out okay it's official it's a
one in a million I mean it's that rare
I've got goose bumps I just got goose
bumps now what kind of person would you
know collect something like this it's a
museum piece or somebody who is a
refined collector and wants to show off
that man I've got something that nobody
else has it's very desirable all right
and the most important question what's
it worth a lot 15,000 $15,000 $15,000
now I'm Saturday and buy it for 750
shouldn't have called me well I
appreciate you coming in
my pleasure if I make a sale I'll give
you a call in this you know see you
later all right he said it's worth about
fifteen thousand it's a small market but
it is desirable would you be able to
take 7,500 so no can do 7,500 the expert
said of 15,000 so I think we'll start at
15,000 it's one in a million fund I'm
not gonna be able to pay you 15,000 for
you got to give me some room in here
what give me a good number that you'd be
happy with how eleven thousand eleven
thousand is a lot better than fifteen
thousand but still more than I want to
pay ninety five you can come up a little
bit more than the 95 I know he was just
telling you the rarity of it and the
condition it's in I really can 9,500
leaves me a good amount of room and I
have to sell it it could stay here for a
year cause here for two days $10,000 ten
big ones
I'm not gonna let it walk over 500 so
for $10,000 you have a deal $10,000 it's
yours
pleasure I'll meet you over at the
counter I've been shot I had no idea was
worth that much I can't believe I'm
leaving here today with $10,000 just
blows my mind
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