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0:00what do we got here ten thousand dollar gold certificate from the year 1900. sweet it was

0:05just a convenient place to put your gold was with the federal government because it's pretty tough

0:10to put 520 gold pieces in your pockets you know it'd be difficult these are no longer negotiable

0:16you can't take it to your bank get ten thousand dollars for it but they're extremely collectible

0:21my asking price is 8 500 there's no way in the world i can sell it for a dollar under six grand

0:28i mean it is really really cool is this one of the ones thrown out the window it was yeah that

0:31came out of the fire in the post office storage building december 1935 started as just a small

0:37little blaze one alarm they were looking around seeing all these boxes full of paper they thought

0:40it was just fuel for the fire so they started throwing everything out the windows and then

0:45all sudden there was these ten thousand dollar bills everywhere and people started grabbing them

0:48absolutely but you know and then they got home and they put up the light and saw that payable only

0:54to the treasurer of the federal reserve bank or a federal reserve bank these have all been canceled

1:00yeah in 1933 franklin roosevelt comes along one of the economic ideas he had is the confiscation

1:06of gold in the united states you could go to prison for having gold in your pocket and

1:09you weren't allowed to have gold certificates because he thought if he could confiscate all the

1:12gold and raise the price of gold he would cause massive inflation which would help the economy

1:18okay so it's already been graded and uh it's a 63 which means it's well above average i've

1:24seen probably half dozen of these things over the years i've seen some of them that literally

1:27looks like it's a sponge and was completely ruined and i've seen one's in really good shape

1:30so what are you looking to get out of it i'd like 8 500 for the piece ooh um

1:37that's a little pricey isn't it well no the other 63s have brought 10 to 12 000 even

1:43though you can't spend one at your local bank i'm thinking more like 4 500 i could probably do eight

1:51but 4 500 is just i'll tell you what i go 4 800 bucks you know i guess i could be in the 7 500

1:59range and i'm stuck at like five grand okay no okay well thanks for coming in

2:04no worries i appreciate it if you change your mind come back and see yeah it is really cool

2:10ten thousand dollar bill that's not a ten thousand dollar bill

2:15all right can i help you i have a 1652 copy of elias ashmon's theatrum chemical britannicum

2:22in it is the secret to creating the philosopher's stone what is that the philosopher's stone

2:31was basically the secret manuscript to create gold so the secrets in this book

2:37the secrets are in this book and i don't know why i have never read this book before

2:43i have a 1652 copy of elias ashmore's theatrum chemicum britannica i bought the book several

2:50years ago from an antiquarian book dealer they say you can't turn lead into gold but i'm

2:54hoping to take this book and turn it into cash i believe this is a book on alchemy what is alchemy

3:03alchemy is the art of transmutating metals they figured if they could find the right

3:08ingredients mercury and some sulfur and a little lead if you come up with a secret

3:14to that you can live forever and make gold or you died so there's a formula that will

3:21help me turn things into gold inside this book there's actually quite a few formulas swedes

3:27i know a little bit about this book i know this was a combination of a bunch of older texts that

3:31were translated into english technically this book was illegal the practicing of alchemy when

3:37it was printed was a capital crime because all the countries of europe believe if you were actually

3:43able to come up with a formula for making gold all the gold in their treasuries would be worthless so

3:47there's also books on alchemy that the catholic church actually wrote down on

3:51a list this is a heretical book and i think the exact punishment for being caught doing

3:56alchemy at the time was to be hung from gilded gallows there were scientists genuinely trying

4:00to create gold and thought they might have created something and then there was a lot of

4:05charlatans who were going around saying you know i got the secret manuscript you know it's a very

4:12interesting history this diagram here contained the key to all the secrets that are in this book

4:19have you ever heard of the ninth gate yes movie with johnny depp the folding diagram there is

4:24called the 12th gate the ninth gate is a fictional reinterpretation of the 12th gate which that

4:30is an actual illustration from there's a lot of interesting things that are going on in that book

4:35i think it's really really cool uh-huh how much do you want for it i want 23 000.

4:44i i need someone to look at it i just don't know nearly enough about this book that's great give

4:49me five minutes no problem i'm really excited to have someone come take a good look at the book

4:54and help us understand what his value is here it is the philosopher's stone yes all right

5:02i know this book this has sort of a fraught history up until about 1500 alchemical works

5:08even though the printing press had been around for 50 years were not printed because the idea

5:12was there's only a small circle that kind of kept this among themselves and they don't want the

5:16public to know and it was very important influence on later scientists notably isaac newton used this

5:22a lot it was his most consulted alchemical text okay what kind of condition do you think it's in

5:28let's see okay because one of the things about this book is that it's really hard to find

5:33complete it has the folding plate which most copies don't have that said

5:41the thing that appears to be missing in here is a full page engraved plate that's supposed to go

5:47here in addition to that looking at the condition here this is a lot of repairs and it's like full

5:52page like it's really hard to tell here too like if this entire piece here was missing

5:58so what do you think it's worth it's not a book that comes up that often i've known a

6:04complete copy that's beautiful without all these repairs that sold for over 30 000

6:12but copies that are incomplete without that folding plate 10 000 or less

6:18so this one with all the repairs and missing a plate

6:26i would place more around 15 000. you're great i think you turned this old dusty book the gold

6:33yeah i tried all right thanks joe you're the best even though this is not the ideal copy this book

6:41is legitimately scarce i don't think rick would go wrong in buying this at a reasonable price i

6:48absolutely love this i'll give you nine thousand dollars for it i don't think i can do nine uh how

6:54about 12. no i'll tell you what i'll give you 10 grand for it that's about as much as i can go it's

7:00i think it's more than a fair price how about ten thousand five hundred dollars

7:06you know what i'm feeling very generous today i'll give you ten thousand three

7:12i'll take it sweet great gonna go write them up sure let me get this book right no no no no

7:17don't touch this just write them up please come on maybe you could just tell me some of those secrets

7:22i don't have to read i sure will i think i can actually make gold with this hey how's it going

7:27good how you doing good i have a medal i'm wondering if you might be interested in

7:31it's a historical us medal struck in 1826 for the completion of the erie canal there's probably

7:36about 75 or so known today that is really really cool yeah these were given out when the erie

7:42canal was finished it was kind of to celebrate the completion of that erie canal but the thing

7:47was too i mean this wasn't like the panama canal at least the panama canal had really inefficient

7:51steam shovels this thing had guys with shuffles yeah yeah they're out there digging a ditch

8:00theory canal completion in 1826 was a major accomplishment for our country i'm asking two

8:05thousand four hundred dollars for it my wife and i are on our way to mesa for the winter

8:09i decided to sell the house some extra money for our vacation i've gotten a lot of strange

8:13things in before but i've never had one of these where'd you get it well i collect historical

8:18us medals and i go to quite a few shows and i picked this up at a show a few years ago okay

8:24yeah the erie canal is like the first great infrastructure project in the united states

8:27it was a couple hundred miles long it was a canal that connected the great lakes to the east coast

8:33because before that literally you had to go up all the way up to nova scotia and go in through that

8:38way which was a much longer trip yeah it opened up the united states changed everything yeah

8:44how much she went for it twenty four hundred dollars i think that's a very good deal actually

8:51um tell you the truth i mean it's one of those things i've never seen one before so i don't

8:54know if this is in decent shape or a bad shape um do you mind if i call on a friend to take a look

8:58at it no of course not that'd be fine okay i'll be right back let me call someone up okay sure work

9:05is gonna call on an expert i hope the guy has seen metals in this condition before and realizes that

9:10really is a premium piece what's up man not much how you doing we're good good hi hi i'm jeff nice

9:16to meet you nice to meet you all right voila erie canal metal that's incredible yeah these are great

9:24it's weird they're literally metals but in some level i kind of feel like they're an artifact

9:29they're just so representative of one of the great moments in american history the completion of the

9:34erie canal they were handed out to dignitaries and they kind of got spread out all over the place

9:40so their survival rate is reasonably low and i don't think they were ever struck afterward

9:45so this thing's almost 200 years old that's cool we have an inscription that says union

9:50of erie with the atlantic and that sentiment is actually played out in this allegorical scene

9:56you have poseidon uh who was the god of the seas uh sitting next to pam he was a god of

10:02the woodlands okay so the big question what do you think this thing is worth this is a white

10:08metal and the white metal are the lower echelon a price that you could not go wrong at would be

10:17something in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars okay

10:21they do often trade in that price range but those aren't metals really quite as nice as

10:26this one it's in excellent condition it's not the highest it's not the lowest this coin is

10:32somewhere in the middle and it could be worth more to the right collector but i think that would be a

10:38smart price thanks thank you congratulations it's a beautiful medal thank you thank you

10:45i think it's a great coin i i love the history on it and everything i mean i love the story that

10:48goes along with it but i'll give you like 800 bucks for it 800 i'm asking 2400 for it and i i

10:55know your expert had an opinion and i do know that they do sell in that price range but you don't

11:01normally see this attractiveness on a typical medal right and he was talking more of a typical

11:06one this is pretty special you know what i'll tell you what i'll give you a thousand bucks the best

11:10i can do period um i really would need closer to two thousand dollars you have to understand i've

11:15been dealing with dave for a year i really trust his opinion a thousand bucks is what i could do

11:19yeah yeah i think i i think we're a little bit far off i need these 1900 i take 1900 for

11:30yeah it's not going to happen but thanks for bringing it in all right i appreciate it man

11:34well i appreciate rick's offer but a thousand dollars is really just not a very fair offer

11:39in my opinion i'm sure i can sell for a lot more than that who knows maybe a maze arizona

11:43where we're ahead and i'll find somebody that would be interested in picking it up

11:47what do you got there hall of fame wwe ring it was issued to paul bear

11:54wwe the sort of wrestling thing sort of wrestling thing my kids thought it was the greatest thing in

12:02the world and then i would tell my kids it's fake and they'd go shut up dad this ring was issued to

12:11paul bear's family he was inducted into the hall of fame after he passed away i became friends with

12:16the family over the last few years and they gave the ring to me i want to sell the ring

12:20today to get as much money as i can for me and the family that it belongs to pallbearer uh that was

12:29like the undertaker's manager or something like that correct they put like white powder on his

12:33face to make him look really like macabre and he had like an urn he walked around over there

12:39he would like throw it on the undertaker and all of a sudden the undertaker got all

12:43strong and it was some mysterious thing like that and it was really fun to watch it really was

12:48i can't imagine the orthopedic bills yeah because because even though it's choreographing these guys

12:54still really get hurt they really have to work out still breaking tables and breaking chairs and yeah

12:58yeah they get hit in the head with sledgehammers and just walk away it's absolutely amazing

13:04i think it's really really cool how is she looking for

13:09i want as much as i can get but i think it'd be close to 22 000. no um

13:17i don't see that there i i've sold super bowl rings for less money you know i i'd give you four

13:23grand for it uh i've been offered more than four thousand dollars for it already it's a weird thing

13:28you know because you know i deal a lot in sports rings but this is not a sports ring this is a

13:34sorta sports ring it's really neat that he's from the hall of fame and all these other

13:39things and that's why i'm offering four grand but i i i don't see anything more than that

13:46thank you for the offer i'm gonna hold on to it thanks man thank you sir

13:50uh sometimes you're better off to walk away here in the offer of four thousand dollars made me want

13:55to pull out some wwe moves and throw somebody off the top ropes i have a signed copy of fear

14:01and loathing in las vegas i got it from hunter s thompson you got it from hunter s thompson

14:05how'd you do that i actually spent a weekend with him in 1988. oh my god and you survived

14:12i did survive hunter s thompson passed away quite a few years ago i think the value of the book

14:19now is probably as high as it's going to be in retrospect i don't know that had i

14:25read the book ahead of time i would have agreed to go and help him that weekend

14:32tell me about the weekend with hunter s thompson that sounds like a lot of fun um i had a call

14:36from a friend one night who worked at a resort in phoenix saying hunterus thompson is here he needs

14:42somebody who knows how to type to help him write an article and in the course of about 48 hours

14:48he got nothing written he spent most of the weekend paranoid that somebody was out to get him

14:54yeah the guy was crazy but people loved him he wrote the book in 1972 and then 1998 he

15:01got really popular because johnny depp and benicio del toro made the movie they rent a

15:05cadillac in the trunk of the car they've got an obscene amount of drugs then he wrote like

15:10his whole manifesto on life and you know barely turned in an article he was supposed to write

15:15so he signed it he not only signed his name he wrote a little note to me beverly thanks for

15:21the help in that eating white trash oil slick in the desert called phoenix your friend connor

15:28s thompson yeah um he really was one of those guys that just didn't care what anybody else

15:34thought hunter s thompson is legendary and fear and loathing is considered his masterpiece since

15:40the story's about a bunch of guys just having a crazy time in vegas i can kind of relate to

15:44it so do you have any idea of what you'd want to get out of it i'm hoping maybe about 800

15:52i i have no idea i have no idea what it's worth um to be honest with you the book really isn't worth

15:57much itself but the whole actual handwri written note and it being signed by him i mean that's

16:03really really cool i mean i have no doubt that someone would want to buy it um

16:08i do have a friend though that runs a bookstore and

16:12if there is anybody in the world that can tell me what it's worth it's going to be her

16:15do you mind if i give her a call not at all i'd actually like to hear what she has to say also

16:21i'm the furthest thing from a book nerd but i love fear and loathing and if everything

16:25checks out i'm gonna have a real tough time not buying this thing fear and loathing in las vegas

16:32and it looks to be an inscribed copy it is hunter thompson said that he got into writing because it

16:37was the only thing he was good at he said there was no drug he'd ever experienced that compared

16:41to the high of sitting at a desk and writing so he was completely dedicated to his craft he created

16:46a style of journalism known as gonzo journalism it's not about the story itself but it's about

16:51the process of getting the story that he likes to talk about yeah hunter s thompson is pretty well

16:56known in the literary world his prose is in some cases as good as or better than some of the great

17:0320th century writers well quite frankly the book it's a paperback you could buy that online for

17:09five dollars there's no collectible value in the paperback itself it is really about the signature

17:14in the inscription one of the great things about thompson is that he's not the type of guy to sign

17:20best wishes uh-huh you've got that long bizarre inscription that's the type of thing he does

17:26and one of the things that you see with him a lot is he signs with his initials instead of a full

17:31signature so this is pretty typical for thompson his h it always looks like this w with this big

17:37loop so the inscription is definitely real which i know i would say that the retail price for it

17:48would be between four and five hundred dollars that is a lot more than i thought you were gonna

17:53say i appreciate you coming in rebecca thank you my pleasure nice to meet you originally i

17:58was hoping for maybe 800 but i really didn't have any good idea what the book was worth

18:06strictly because i'm a big hunter s thompson fan i'll i'll offer you 250. 250. about 3.75

18:18i gotta make more than 25 bucks off the deal

18:22i'll go 300. it's kind of low he did sign it personally how about 350.

18:33all right you got a deal i'm not surprised that he was willing to negotiate up to 350

18:38because i could tell that he really did like hunter s thompson i have 350 and i'm really

18:44happy i was able to sell the book got something here to show you see if you're interested in it

18:50it's an 1880 knights templar uniform that's really really cool a man called john t

18:58long owned it and he became a knights templar in 1889 and uh he joined the secret squirrels

19:10the knights templar is a organization associated with the masons i have been a member for over

19:1620 years if they were guarding the holy grail i never got invited to help there was the original

19:24knights templar and you know their whole story i've been a nice templar for over 20 years okay

19:30the story of the knights templar is pretty damn cool some of the myths were that when

19:35they did originally go to the holy lands during the crusades they found the holy grail they found

19:42the ark of the covenant they found all of king solomon's gold and before you knew it they were

19:48the most powerful organization in all of europe next thing you know everybody owes them money

19:55and uh how's the easiest way to pay some money off when you owe money don't pay him just kill him

20:04so this is his whole kit yes all the embroidery on it is hand done it's all in gold bullion and

20:13silver bullion what makes this so unusual is this hasn't been touched in over 115 years and all the

20:23silver is in beautiful condition okay i think it's really really cool and uh what were you

20:32looking to do with it i would like to sell it if the price is right and how much do you want for it

20:41six thousand seven hundred dollars

20:46it is super interesting it's amazing work here's my big problem

20:53the only person who's gonna buy this

20:58is nobody come on look at this it's very interesting but

21:07i have the most beautiful gold detailed masonic medallions and stuff like that

21:14no one give me a diaper maybe your temple thing will buy them off you

21:20at a massively reduced rate but it's just too damn hard to sell thanks for bringing it in and um

21:30so much i understand it's a very difficult item to sell but i wish you would have bought it

21:40hey what can i help you with i have

21:44a very famous guitar strap here owned by the late stevie ray blonde

21:52it's super cool stevie ray vaughan was an amazing guitar player probably top ten in all

21:58the blues players in the world and his fan base is still out there today yeah i still

22:02listen to his music yeah i do too then again i stopped listening to new music in like 1987.

22:08i'm coming into the pawn shop to sell my original stevie ray blonde guitar strap i got the guitar

22:14strap at a estate sale and one of his guitars recently sold at auction for about six hundred

22:20thousand dollars so i'm asking forty thousand dollars for it this is um really interesting

22:28stevie ray vaughan had incredible talent i mean he's up there with pete townsend jimmy page jimi

22:35hendrix of course all those guys generally he played like a stratocaster yeah which is sort

22:40of weird for a blues player because usually they want something a little deeper tone less

22:44twangy yeah he was a big jimi hendrix fan though and of course jimi hendrix was a stratocaster

22:49but he actually had names for all of his guitars they were like red and there was yellow and there

22:53was a lenny after his girlfriend's name was lenora or something like that yeah okay i mean

22:58it's a decent shape you to figure this if you used it a lot do you have uh any documentation sure

23:05the strap was originally sold from his close friend and manager 1978 srv strap owned by stevie

23:17ray vaughan okay looks like it's got a little wear on it oh you bet that's all his sweat beautiful

23:27all right how much do you want for it 40 000. okay um quite frankly that sounds like a lot of money

23:35it is a lot of money i think lenny sold for about 600k okay that sounds about right for

23:40those guitars but um the guitar strap who knows so i'm gonna get my buddy to take a look at this

23:46thing rock and roll memorabilia is his business okay i'll be right back once you start getting

23:53further and further away from the instruments the price sort of drops off a cliff we're gonna

23:58have to do a little more digging or where kelly rick you called yes oh i know what that is yeah

24:05it's the stevie ray vaughan's signature guitar strap all right you look at any picture and uh

24:12chances are it's 50 50 he's using one of these straps okay it's a good looking guitar strap

24:21it's definitely it's seen this service this one it's been worn well you supposedly use this

24:28all the time early on i mean it's got good wear to it it's got sweat on it that's what i like i like

24:35that they mention sweat in here they talk about it yeah as a helper to stevie ray vaughan and he's

24:42swearing that he got it from stevie ray verona it's probably what probably is

24:46so did stevie play with this one or he played with one that looked just like it

24:53these were commercially available for all through the 80s when you want a value to

24:58something you've got to find out if it's one or five or ten because it makes a big difference

25:04so if somebody pays a lot of money for this they want it to be the only one

25:11so what do you think it's worth a good market for his guitars these days so

25:18it stands to reason that you should get a good amount of money for a strap

25:23especially this one so i'm putting a value of uh seven to ten thousand dollars at auction

25:32okay the value sounds kind of light because this was his first music note strap

25:39it may be the first one but it's the first one or several and there's no real proof

25:45it's the first one i appreciate it man my pleasure always thank you sir thank you

25:52all right i mean it's really really cool i think 40 000 is like astronomical a little bit high

25:59i'd give you four grand for it

26:04that's a little short people don't spend those big dollars unless

26:10it's a guitar nothing like this has ever been out there though before four grand that's what

26:16i could do i would love for it to be worth 40 grand it's not 35 000 no four grand i just can't

26:24i can't go that low if you change your mind come back and see me okay i appreciate it okay thanks

26:41you