Name: Pawn Stars: BIG BET for RIDICULOUSLY RARE Ancient Byzantine Coin (Season 8) | History
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I have Ah, corn for the Byzantine Empire.

Look at it and everyone swears it's from the Byzantine Empire.

I'm hoping to get about 2000 but I'm going to go as low is about 1300.

Actually bought a group of books from antique store in a while back and in one of them that was actually inside the spine.

Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to a new city he built.

While they're just the right purity of gold was used, the right weight and everything like that.

The Byzantine Empire was around for so long because they were so well organized.

And the backbone of the economy was coins like this.

Because you have Christ seated on a throne.

And they depicted Christ there as more of a king than as a martyr.

Um, there's a collector base for this, but it's not as big as you would think.

It might be hard selling this to one of my typical customers, but find the right history buff, and they'll go nuts for it.

And eventually one of them is gonna walk in my shop, probably right around 1100.

I'm thinking you see out, then the coin is yes.

You know, the same coins they're making a few 100 years earlier, Twice is thick.

Now I'll give you, like, 100 bucks for it.

That's that's a little bit too well, about 1000 years old.

You look at the back of the coin, the conditions not great.

Normally, I'd call my coin guy in something like this, but my gut told me, Just pull the trigger and buy it.

Of course, I still need to call him because this thing needs a grade in a price.

I have to sell the damn thing, hopefully at a ridiculous profit.

I specialized in ancient coins that includes everything prior to about 500 a.

He's on the reverse, and Jesus Christ is on the overs the front.

And with this interesting cup shape that it has was introduced under Constantine the nine.

I have a comparison coin here for you, and this one was issued by one of his predecessors.

And this coin is as flat as a pancake, and this one is like a shot glass.

In Byzantine times, gold coins were very much out of the reach of the average person.

However, merchants had very large transactions and they would sometimes use 1000 these at a time.

Well, this coin is not dated any more specifically than the reign of Constantine.

But they have Christ seated on a throne like that.

I know that's from, like the Byzantine Empire.

But these are not always worth what people might think they are.

Okay, I see these going typically in the marketplace today for between $702,000 in this condition.

I mean, it's a gold coin that's almost 1000 years old.

And I think you just ran into a market that it present is terribly undervalued.

Um, yeah, because I paid 1100 bucks for it, all right.

I was exactly looking for lesson learned.

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