what you got a commemorative plaque of mount rushmore mount rushmore pretty cool this was
the largest sculpture ever done in the world as far as i know up to this point nobody could build
anything like that now because the regulations and tree huggers i came down to the pawn shop
today to sell my mount rushmore commemorative plaque i'm looking to sell it to help out
my brother i'm looking to get one thousand dollars the least i'll take for it maybe 900
where did you get this thing actually i inherited this mount rushmore by lincoln borglum all right
do you know anything about it gusenborglum was the guy that actually carved out the
four presidents at mount rushmore the son lincoln borglum you know his father died so he finished
mount rushmore in october 1941. so this was done by his son yes lincoln borglum did this one it was
a tribute to his father okay most people don't realize mount rushmore wasn't publicly financed
he got donations for it yeah it was an amazing project i know the noses are like 20 feet long
they did some really interesting techniques to do it there was blasting there was jackhammers
he picked washington the founder of the country right jefferson the founder of the laws of our
country okay lincoln started equality right uh roosevelt that was basically who made us a world
power this is one of the greatest landmarks in the united states it took hundreds of men
thousands of pounds of dynamite and took 14 years to complete this right here so this is pure silver
yes it's 30.8 ounces stamp 999 silver right there so there's close to a thousand dollars with the
silver here and yeah i can melt it no no no don't melt it you'll never lose buying precious metals
that's why we call this place the gold and silver not the copper and lead actually copper's over
three dollars a pound so i'd probably take that too what are you trying to do with it
trying to sell it how about you looking to get out of it sir well i was looking to get a thousand
dollars on it 800 would be better it's more than eight hundred dollars worth of silver i know
you're right at the ballpark can i give you 900 bucks how about 9.50
950 we can do people will pay good money for a collectible like this and even if it doesn't sell
the value of the silver is worth more than i paid anyway so i feel pretty good hey rick we should
scrap this it's a hunk of silver we'll be able to sell it make a profit dad earlier we bought a
replica of mount rushmore made out of pure silver i think it's pretty cool but the old man just
wants to scrap it if we scrap it we get our money right away it scraps for a thousand if i hang it
on the wall get 1500 bucks for it rick you know my favorite thing in the world is silver silver's at
a pretty good price right now it could go down i'm gonna end up losing money on the damn thing trust
me there is someone out there who wants this they will see it they will fall in love they will buy
it okay rick we'll agree to disagree that's it i have a feeling this is not gonna be the end of it
you starting scrap yep one of the things my dad loves to do around here is sort through the silver
he wants to figure out what gets scrapped what gets sold in the showcase
then this definitely should not be here
why not because i could sell it for more than the scrap i don't know why you want to scrap
all the silver it's just weird to scrap it to begin with all right the way i see it would
scrap it and profit automatically the only thing my idiot son does automatically is lose hair
it's silver son you can't scrap george washington why not because you can't it's rock
you