History Channel's Pawn Stars to check out huge silver bar

[Ardent Listener]

From what I could tell from the shows promotional advertisement, it looks like a 1,000 ounce bar. They were even drilling into it to see if "steel" was implanted into it! To air on Monday I believe.

[cesariojpn]

http://www.history.com/shows/pawn-stars ... on#slide-1

Silver Linings

Premiere Date: 06/04/2012

Take a shine to the Pawn Stars when a guy brings in 100 pounds of pure silver. Including a single brick worth over $35,000, will the guys mine a deal, or will a led center cause the deal to sink? Then, Rick gets stumped when a seller brings in a mysterious book. Hand-written in Cyrillic, can this ancient text turn a successful chapter for the store, or is the end written in stone? And later, the guys flash back to the '90s when a collection of movie props from "Batman Forever" come into the shop. Will nostalgia lead them to bite, or will they not even bat an eyelash?

TVPG L

[Ardent Listener]

So they made up rounds with the old man's picture on them with most of the big bar. $60 per ounce for them, but they will get it. Not from me though.

[cesariojpn]

So they made up rounds with the old man's picture on them with most of the big bar. $60 per ounce for them, but they will get it. Not from me though.

Given they get a thousand or so "customers" per day, they should be able to sell them for the profit margin. Thought I wouldn't blame some folks to try and haggle on the price!!

[PADFH]

Anyone know the film date? Wondering what melt price was.

[cesariojpn]

32.39 was the quote Rick used.

[Rob72830]

Has anyone checked to see if any of those rounds have made it to ebay?

[cesariojpn]

Has anyone checked to see if any of those rounds have made it to ebay?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... true&rt=nc

20 sold @ $64.99 each. Earliest won was March 12th, 2012.

[SilverEye]

These guys are really good at marketing themselves. How long til that coin ends up in the generic silver bin at the LCS?

Also, that coin is really only a $35 souvenir because it has intrinsic metal value that you can get out of it. I bet it appreciates to a profit for the buyer before the $35 worth of T-shirts and the kitchen magnet my wife and I bought when we were there.

[skoons6694]

Checked ebay and 96 have sold so far. Of course they're probably giving ebay and paypal around $8-9 per coin, so they're really getting $51-52 per coin. Still not too shabby.

[cesariojpn]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Mans-71st-B ... 337738dfdc

The Initial Minting of 500 Coins As Stated On The Show Were A Personal Gift To The Old Man. The Coins For Sale Here Are Not Part Of That 500.

Hmmmmm......

[neilgin1]

Has anyone checked to see if any of those rounds have made it to ebay?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... true&rt=nc

20 sold @ $64.99 each. Earliest won was March 12th, 2012.

oh mercy! that has to be, the bud ugliest coin/round i have ever , ever seen in my life. God love that ole feller, but why THAT when you could have that beautiful gal on the ASE's?

i'm gonna have to kill a pig to get that truly skeery image out my mind. whooo!

ps. checked out their "gold and silver", but i noticed in "swag", a t-shirt, that if worn in a country bar around here, at the wrong time, post midnite, would probably get ya an azz whopping

[neilgin1]

here's the video
http://www.youtube.com/user/TruthNeverT ... ture=watch

[John_doe]

the old man has got it figured out.

[jacer333]

Thanks for the link, I missed it when it aired.

[blackrabbit]

I don't have TV so one more thanks for the link!

[Metals Mogul]

Maybe one day I'll have that much

[scyther]

This video makes me so jealous... I wish I could've bought hundreds of pounds of silver at $3 an ounce... So. Much. Of course I was too young then. Oh well.

$3 an ounce wow... This is the reason I don't buy more silver.

[cesariojpn]

here's the video
http://www.youtube.com/user/TruthNeverT ... ture=watch

Anyone feel like hitting the idiot for just liquidating his hoard all at once?

[tractorman]

I'm not buying that story one bit. Smacks of scripted to me. Good idea ... make some silver rounds for the old fart's birthday. Might as well put something on TV for free publicity so you can charge outrageous prices for them. I can hear the producer now, "Don't forget to haggle a little, the people love that."

[Mossy]

How much did that guy pay for the door stop mentioned here a bit over a year ago?