RYAN: Hey.
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Hi, how you doing?
I have a coin I think you might be interested in.
What do you got here?
COIN OWNER: It's a shekel of Tyre, like from the bible.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Yeah, we only buy American coins, man,
so you'll have to take it somewhere else.
Hold on, hold on.
Since when do we only start buying American coins?
I thought that was our rule?
RICK HARRISON: No.
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Whatever.
RYAN: I found the coin in an action lot,
and I thought it was really neat and may
have a lot of significant historical value
to it, especially for it to be 2,000
years old from biblical times.
And I think they can give me a lot of cash for it.
Basically what you have is a really
cool coin that is collectible, because it's from Jerusalem.
It's from the time of Christ.
Supposedly, Judas received 30 pieces of silver
to basically drop a dime on Jesus.
And it was probably a coin like this.
RYAN: So there is a possibility this
could be one of those coins.
Is that correct?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
No.
[LAUGHS] The odds are highly against it.
They made millions of them.
RYAN: Sure, OK.
But there's still a possibility?
It's however minute, OK.
The shekel of Tyre was a really common coin
a couple thousand years ago in the Middle East,
but there aren't many left.
And even though we can't prove that this
is one of the infamous 30 pieces of silver from the bible,
it is still valuable due to its rarity.
It's really neat how they made coins back then.
They struck these with a hammer that was four feet long,
and the hammer had the face on it.
And they literally stood four feet back and struck it.
[HAMMER CLANG]
Even the most skilled guy with that hammer
was never going to get a perfect strike every time.
That's why you'll see like this edge is off center.
They're all off-center a little bit.
No two identical.
Everything about this is right.
It's perfect.
The problem is someone cleaned it.
Any coin collector considers a clean coin a damaged coin.
If this wasn't cleaned, I'd offer you $5,000 for it.
Wow.
RICK HARRISON: Now the big question is,
how much do you want for it?
$2,000.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
What do you think, Chum?
It's old.
[LAUGHS] Will you take 14?
I can't do 1,400.
I just can't really.
It's got the historical value.
And it's also been cleaned.
RYAN: How about 1,750?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
1,500?
I could do 16.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Yeah, 1,600.
Deal. RICK HARRISON: OK.
All right, you want to go write him up?
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Yeah.
RYAN: $1,600 should help out.
We've got a lot of expenses with the extra kid,
and hopefully that'll at least get us some diapers
bought for a few months.
[CASH REGISTER RINGS]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: So your dad thinks
he just bought the coin that Judas
was paid to betray Jesus with.
RICK HARRISON: No.
How are you ever going to prove that?
RICHARD HARRISON: No, he's not going to prove it.
What are you going do, test it for Jesus' DNA?
[EXHALES SHARPLY] I make a good buy on an ancient coin,
and around here, for some reason,
I have to defend myself.
Second-guessing all my decisions has become
like a hobby for these guys.
RICHARD HARRISON: What did you buy, Rick?
RICK HARRISON: It wasn't the coin that Judas was paid.
It's the same type of coin from the same time period.
It's not the coin, Chum.
I got a good deal on it.
I paid $1,600 for it, and as soon
as I can get it authenticated, hopefully get 2,500, three
grand, somewhere around there.
I'm willing to bet I'm going to make
a pretty decent profit on this.
Hopefully, that will shut them up.
Well, the price don't sound bad, Rick.
RICK HARRISON: Do you do anything around here
anymore, besides complain?
Well, that's part of my job.
[LAUGHTER]
[CASH REGISTER RINGS]
COREY HARRISON: What's up, Andy?
ANDY: Hey, guys, I got some potentially bad news.
COREY HARRISON: Andy is our head of security,
so when he says he has bad news, it can be really bad.
What's up?
ANDY: An out-of-town detective has called Las Vegas police.
The shekel that you recently brought in, there's
a chance it might be stolen.
They want to put it on hold.
[BLEEP]
Well that's $1,600 down the toilet.
RICK HARRISON: Everything we buy goes into a national computer
system.
All right, you want to go write him up?
Yeah.
And if it comes up stolen, we have to give it back.
It definitely sucks, but it's part of doing
business in a pawn shop.
OK, so this guy stole it?
ANDY: Not the guy that brought it to us.
RICK HARRISON: So, what, it's been in multiple hands?
And I'm the last guy, and I'm the one who gets stuck with it?
ANDY: Pretty much.
RICK HARRISON: Well, they're going to have to wait.
I sent it out to get graded.
COREY HARRISON: That's my dad for you.
When it rains, it pours.
Obviously, we can't guess what's stolen or not,
but throwing away more money on top of it is just his M.O.
RICK HARRISON: It sucks that it happened,
but what am I going to do?
Damn it, Rick, you can be more careful on what you buy.
Well how am I supposed to be more careful?
This guy legitimately bought it from a different guy.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
This is just a great excuse for you to complain.
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: To pay for something
and then have to give it back.
COREY HARRISON: [LAUGHS]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: I might have lost my job over that.
You know they have a point, Rick.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[CASH REGISTER RINGS]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: There's the guys, Andy.
RICK HARRISON: My security guy, Andy, found out that the shekel
I bought was stolen.
Now he's got some sort of update.
I hate to think what could the problem be now.
So what's up?
ANDY: The coin we've been working with the police on,
turns out that the guy who originally owned it got
compensated for his loss.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
It's ours.
They released it this morning.
COREY HARRISON: So it's not stolen.
We dodged a bullet there.
Luckily for us, the coin was insured,
and the insurance company paid for the loss.
So that makes the coin free and clear.
Hey, Rick, don't do the end-zone dance yet.
We're don't even know if the damn thing is real.
RICK HARRISON: If it's real, will you shut up?
RICHARD HARRISON: Probably not.
[CASH REGISTER RINGS]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Well here's the moment of truth.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hand me those scissors.
You think that shekel's real?
COREY HARRISON: I don't know.
I just think somebody should have
checked before we bought it.
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Yeah, hopefully next time Rick
will be more careful.
RICK HARRISON: I've been in the coin business my entire life.
It's real.
There's no problem.
We get to keep the coin, and they're still giving me hell.
It never ends.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRINKLING AND RUSTLING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Is it real?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
It's not real.
It's real.
See, I told you.
COREY HARRISON: Good for you, after 30 years in the coin
business, you got it right.
[LAUGHS]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SLOW CLAPPING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
RICK HARRISON: I hate my family.