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so what do we got here we have notes from the Republic and the government of Texas all right that is pretty cool it's pretty amazing most people in Texas believe they live in a separate country already and it'd be really cool to have their own money too absolutely I came to the pawn shop today to sell a set of Republic of Texas and a government of Texas note this is the real currency that they use back in the 1830s and 40s the reason I'm trying to solve the notes is the business that I own has invested in them it's time to refund the business so we have nine Republic of Texas bills and this one that says government of Texas we have Sam Houston right here he was President most people don't know that he was indeed it just wasn't of the United States it was uh the Republic of Texas absolutely Texas was part of Mexico there was a revolution they declared their sovereignty it was his own country and then the United States government sort of annexed Texas saying you're part of the United States the people in Texas really didn't dig that Texas has a wild history Native groups like the Comanches were fighting in that area for over a thousand years and when European explorers showed up in the early 1500s the fighting just got worse finally Texas declared itself independent from Mexico and was its own country for nine years before the U.S government annexed Texas at 1845. so tell me what you know about the bills the notes were produced between 1838 and 1840 finest set of notes known to exist all the notes have been authenticated and graded so there's no question as to their authenticity or the quality the bills old and rare they've already been authenticated and graded and they're in great condition I can definitely sell these and make a profit if the guy will let them go at the right price so what were you looking to do with the mall sell them okay and how much did you want for them the nine notes of the Republic of Texas approximately twenty five thousand and then for the government of Texas note 650 000. 650. 1000. oh really um why would you think this bill was worth so much that's the rarest of all of them it's the only known uncirculated specimen graded the next highest note is au 58 which is about uncirculated okay Ed do you know how much that one's sold for uh I still own it okay all right so um we have nothing to compare the price to not a thing do you mind if I call someone to try and figure out this price here I think that would be a good idea 650 Grand is more than I've ever spent on anything coming in the shop so there's no way I'm going to Shell out that kind of money until I have someone look at it who knows it could be worth every penny hi guys Jay how's it going man what's going on Jay the guys call me in when they have a piece of currency that they need more expertise the guy's got a lot of stuff here from the Republic of Texas and one from the government of Texas looks like a nice collection these notes are part of a very colorful history they're fascinating they're scarce and they come up at auction usually in lower grades Early Texas notes can can be very rare and like anything else it depends strictly on condition this gentleman might have something real valuable here what we're asking for this group in the neighborhood of about 25 000 uh with a 500 bill which very rarely see so you're evaluating this at around ten thousand at least yeah and these you're evaluating at about 700 to a thousand each yeah about that in my opinion the retail value on these would be three to six hundred dollars each okay on the 500 I would say couple of thousand in an auction it could go for more but not ten thousand not even close now this is quite a bill this government of Texas ten dollar I believe this is the highest grade they've ever issued for this this is this is very different from the rest of these I think it's in fabulous condition what are we asking for this bill 650 000. actually that's not even in the ballpark that's over the moon over the planets over the Stars has anyone offered you a quarter of that I've turned down that offer well have you saved their phone number absolutely you better run and take it before they change their mind I would put a much lower value on this okay in my opinion the 10 Sam used to know would retail for five to seven thousand dollars and on a great day at a great auction ten thousand I paid more than that I've looked up at the auction records to know where they trade this note of course has never been seen before well I don't like it but it's still a limited number of collectors it's not like 20 gold pieces it's not like silver dollars that have millions of people that are interested absolutely this is a small Universe of collectors maybe a few thousand real serious collectors so the fact that something is the finest known is great but that doesn't necessarily mean it's worth a Fortune of money most people don't have a clue what it's worth um you're on your own I've given you my opinion okay it's a free country and people can ask whatever they want I have to give my opinion based on what I consider the real world the real Market obviously we're really far apart you know my guy says 6 500 you're saying 650 000 so I appreciate you bringing in an expert but obviously this is so rare he just doesn't normally deal with it and if I could buy notes that his price is retail I'd probably buy him out Jay's my guy I got to listen to him I've never had any deal that far apart before on the prices but uh just more research and more time is probably what we needed obviously a deal is not going to be made here today just a difference of opinion happens all the time absolutely no hard feelings no hard feelings all right certainly he doesn't know enough about the republic or the government of Texas to give an accurate number this man just doesn't have a clue what he's talking about how you doing good how are you I'm good you have a coin here what is this I picked it up from an estate sale and I've done a little research on it but I'm not quite sure exactly what it means kind of looks like Caesar crossed with Medusa and on a bad hair day I was at an estate sale and I found the coin mixed in with a bunch of other items and I've had it now for about three months and it's really hard to find out how much coins are worth the information is just not out there but I'm hoping to get somewhere in the near near fifteen thousand it's actually in really really good condition hey Rick check it out don't you wish you could have a hair day like that this is interesting do you know anything about it [Music] I heard a bunch of land I'm probably pronouncing this all wrong uh King at the raffies or something like that I forget he was the king of pontus where turkey is today you know he had control of cities where there was a lot of Roman citizens I mean one day he basically killed 80 000 Romans within his cities because he was afraid they were going to rebel against him he uh married his sister I don't know if they have kids or not you know it would be a little awkward I guess especially at school King with her daddy's was such a bad guy he was a tyrant but he was also a really great General and the Roman Empire could not expand until they got rid of this guy he was definitely no joke but the real joke would be is if I wasn't here and some had to figure out this coin all by himself what were you looking to get out of it um maybe 15. 1500 no 15 000. yes um this is the problem with old coins like this they're counterfeited all the time but then again there's also the possibility it's real I just I I need someone to look at it if you don't mind hanging out for a little bit let me get someone down here who knows all about this give me five minutes okay thank you so you want to buy a coin while you're waiting not really I came to sell one Rick's gonna call an expert in but at the same time he thinks it might be fake and that concerns me because I was really hoping that it was going to be real how's it going man good I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure this is the guy who married his sister ate poison it was more or less killed by the Romans I'm guessing mithrid 80s yes however you pronounce it well on here it says uh King Mr deities which is descended of a noble father okay he was descended on his mother's side from Greek Kings like Alexander and on his father's side from Persian kings so he literally on one side he has the Greek Heritage covered on the other side he has his Persian Heritage and you notice how he looks a little bit like Alexander the Great on here with that wild flowing hair he did this on purpose because in this time period everyone wanted to be the great General the great leader that Alexander the Great was very interesting three wars were thrown he started by imprisoning his mother and his brother married his sister and in the end he was betrayed by his own son and committed suicide what a lovely family sounds like the Kardashians so how old is this coin if it's real it's about 2200 years old but the survival rate is very low so I'm gonna Loop it yeah this is the real deal how much does something like that valued at well these are in real demand from collectors it's probably 10 000 Plus yeah pretty nice coin there it's a beautiful coin well thanks Dave I appreciate it no problem thank you all right best of luck and congratulations thank you oh finding a coin like this in an estate sale is like the proverbial needle in a haystack it's something really unusual so what do you realistically want out of it 10. well that's not going to happen I mean there's a million expenses involved in selling it and I got to make something what are you thinking uh more like five five okay you gotta be able to do better than that no but I have to get it sent off I have to get it encapsulated and graded how about seven you know I I don't mean to beat you up here I really don't if you feel like 5500 for it it's um it's a top sell it really is some things like this can sit around here for years I just want to see if there's a way that I can maybe sell it to a collector you want to shop it around if I still have it in a month or two would you still be willing to buy it at that time yeah as long as the world hasn't come to an end or anything like that yeah sounds good we'll have a nice day thank you nice to meet you likewise thank you I really have nothing to lose Rick said I can come back in a month or two if I still have it if I haven't found another buyer you'll never understand business will you oh but you want to be a manager that's right okay nevermind [Music] hey how's it going pretty good I got the smoking Hamilton it's a U.S currency air I think it's a one of a kind item okay um it's just a really funny error for them to make on it because he's definitely smoking something have the smoking Hamilton 10 bill U.S currency error looks like he's smoking a cigarette I'm wanting to get 50 000 because I believe it's a one of a kind item if I'm able to sell the bill today I'm going to take the money and buy a brand new car it's definitely really cool he's the only guy besides Ben Franklin that was never a president that's on a bill Hamilton was a really really interesting guy he's probably one of the coolest founding fathers that we have this guy came over joined up with George Washington was so smart and so educated that he became in charge of the treasury of the United States and then he actually got killed in a duel by the Vice President Aaron Burr at the time where in the world did you get this well I'm a collector of U.S currency heirs and uh dealer I know came up with this he bought a whole collection and this was one of the errors that were in the package okay it does look like he's smoking a cigarette yeah right I've never seen a smoking Hamilton before but I don't know how uncommon it is I know that up until recently there was a lot of Errors maybe bills some make them more collectible than others obviously this one has the novelty of it looking like he's smoking a cigarette yeah so what are you looking to get out of it I'm looking to get like fifty thousand dollars well um I feel like it's got more value it's a one-of-a-kind item but it'd be worth a lot of money I don't know I'm not very good when it comes to these air bills like this I really never know what exactly they're worth so if you don't mind let me call in a buddy of mine his name's Peter he's a currency expert he'll be able to tell me exactly what this thing's worth okay sounds good all right uh hang out and uh I'll be right back okay okay I'm very excited to find out what the currency expert is going to say today because I've talked to various people and nobody has really said a number on it Hamilton quite funny actually because I was just trying to get tickets for the play impossible cannot get tickets so what are your questions about this bill here I'm notoriously bad with these air notes sure I know they're collectible I just don't know why some of them are worth so much more than others so Iris are in the eye of the beholder there is no real market value things don't sell exactly the same every day every month it really depends on how dramatic the error and so forth is and who really wants it but at the same time errors can be worth a lot of money depending on how dramatic it is so what do you think with this well um this is an obstruction error which happens when there is a piece of particle say lint something falls on top printed on but then it falls off and it creates an obstruction it happens to be in a location near Hamilton's mouth that looks like a cigarette however the area itself is not rare it's actually one of the most common possible errors he's asking 50 grand for it I'm sorry um 50 000 is is are you smoking something so what do you think it's worth uh it's very minor error but it's in the right location if I have to put a value on this bill but I'd say around five to six hundred dollars but even then I think it's kind of on the high side it's less than the value I thought it was going to be that's for sure it's so hard to put a real market value but I can assure you Corey you don't want to pay anywhere near 50 Grand I'm sorry but that's just my expert opinion that's what I'm gonna have to go with now I appreciate it thank you good luck okay thank you okay so this is one of those weird situations that I hate being in if it's worth 500 bucks that means I could probably pay a 300 and it's really hard to offer somebody 300 or they asked for 50 Grand so I'm offering a 300 bucks what do you want to go from there I think I just hang on to and see if I can get a little better offer than that okay man I appreciate it man take care I thought I had a item with a much higher value but 300 is like crushed my expectations what do we have here looks like something's from Mission Impossible I could uh buy your house with this oh now you look like an old drug dealer coming into the pawn shop today because I have German currency from the early 1900s it goes from 1 000 Mark's denomination all the way up to about 1 million marks I'm asking ten thousand dollars but I don't think I'm gonna settle for anything less than five thousand dollars [Music] whoa pretty cool I mean you probably have I don't know I mean most of them are thousands yeah most of them are thousands Ein million marks yep that's a million dollar bill yeah I mean you probably got a hundred million face value here and back then it wouldn't buy a loaf of bread basically what happened was is treaty that ended World War one was the Treaty of Versailles we demanded reparations from Germany right we demanded just a ridiculous amount of gold everyone in Europe demanded manufactured goods even the United States got Zeppelins airships from them and it basically collapsed their economy they had to borrow money which they really couldn't pay back so they printed more money that caused inflation so they printed more money this was how bad it was in 1919 four marks would buy you all over bread by 1923 it was a trillion marks it's crazy the value of money got so bad that it was written on the walls in public restrooms used toilet paper not the currency it clogs the toilets I am not kidding I believe that after World War One the effects of the Treaty of Versailles really screwed up the German economy it created a massive economic depression and a Gateway for a guy like Hitler to come into power the Treaty of Versailles more or less guaranteed World War II how much do you want for these 10 000. Parks dollars um no you would think they would be worth money but it's not rare um I'd give you 100 bucks for the entire lot if you wanted could you do 2 000 no it's interesting it's cool but literally I know places where I can get these for 10 sets a piece for 10 cents a piece yeah I mean I'd give you a hundred bucks for them okay well I think I'm gonna have to walk away I understand you might need to heat your house one day I will wallpaper the house with this stuff yes have a good one man all right thank you well I think the money's worth more considering the prices collectors were getting online so I'm kind of bummed out that I was kind of lowballed I was definitely expecting more

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Length: 19min 3sec (1143 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 19 2023