hey how's it going okay I'll be with I
have a really cool antique from the gold
rush here it's a scale that dates back
to the eighteen hundred's okay is there
any gold in there actually there is
there is yep okay that looks like a
little bit of placer gold right there
yeah it's great how like when Gold's raw
like this it really doesn't look like
gold it looks right ugly dirty brass but
that's way gold looks actually got it
from a friend who was clearing out a
state in Minnesota it's really cool
because the violet gold has never been
opened I think it's worth around 1,500
because of the antique historical value
of the piece as cool as the gold is I'd
just rather have folding money and you
have a scale I do you would tie the two
pans to it for whatever you're weighing
in one side your little counter weights
to the other until it balance straight
up and down mm-hmm nowadays you just
drop a lot of scale on stock right I was
assuming this from the California Gold
Rush it does fit the time period because
everyone needed one he would walk into a
bar in San Francisco in 1850 you know
they'd say uh that'll be twenty-two
brains of placer and then they'd weigh
it out right there this was your purse
this was this was your wallet sure I
love gold just as much as the next guy
when I go into a store I'd rather use
cash so how much do you think gold is
worth back then in the gold rush and not
just as much as it's today okay well
once you account for inflation an ounce
of gold buys you basically the same
thing today as it did back then the
value really hasn't changed just uh our
money's got worth a lot less that's why
they've been using gold as money for six
thousand years now as far as your scale
here really really interesting but is
basically worthless the problem is the
communist art it's no different than a
beat-up rusty lantern from the 1850s
okay
the gold on the other hand is always
worth money always will be don't you
have an idea how much is in here I think
it's about 10 grams yeah for this stuff
I would pay you 40 dollars a gram so
there's 10 grams there would be 400
bucks and that would be it you can't do
any better just because it's as a
package I think it has a lot more
historical value
I want $1,500 okay no it's neat it's
cute yeah basically what you have here
is you have some scrap gold there's no
difference but then it's a placer gold
it's mined gold from 1850 gold gold is
gold for two bucks that's what I could
do okay yeah I don't think I could sell
it for that okay well thanks for coming
in Nadia Thanks
there's a reason my shop is called gold
and silver it's my two favorite things
to buy gold has held its value for
thousands and thousands of years but I'm
not gonna overpay for it
you