Pawn Stars: 3 Expensive US Bills | History - YouTube

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Let me see this thing.
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MAN: Where in the world did you get these?
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These are wonderful.
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MAN: Yeah, that's really cool, actually.
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Sweet.
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MAN: This is an iconic piece of history.
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It'll go down in history for hundreds of years.
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MAN: Hey, how you doing?
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MAN: Well, I brought in something I thought
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maybe you'd be interested in.
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What do you have?
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I got a $30 bill made by the United States.
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Let me see thing thing.
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MAN: Absolutely.
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MAN: This looks like a $20 bill to me.
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MAN: It does.
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MAN: And now it looks like a 10.
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Now it looks like a $10 bill.
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So this one's from 1974.
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MAN: Those were the last ones made.
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So what happened?
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There was just an error on the printing press or something?
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Yeah, exactly.
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They printed the backs first and they let them dry overnight.
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And then, instead of printing the front with a 10,
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they accidentally slipped those in,
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and they printed the front with a 20.
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MAN: How much are you looking to get?
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I guess I'm looking for $35,000 on this.
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Oh, that's a lot of money for 30 bucks.
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It is.
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I'd like to call someone in and kind
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of get their opinion on what it is
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and what they think about it. - Sure.
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Fair enough. Let's do it.
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This bill is series 1974.
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When they were discovered, I believe the Fed came in.
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They heard about them and retrieved
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as many as they could.
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But around 2,000, I'd say, maybe 2,600, 2,700 escaped.
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So how much do you think this is worth?
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$30,000 and $40,000.
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How about $27,500.
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I think if I offer you $22,000,
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I think there's enough room in there
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for me to make the profit that I need to make.
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I just can't go below $25,000.
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All right.
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- Thanks so much. - My pleasure.
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- Thank you. - Thank you.
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Well, I have some bills that I had in my safe deposit box
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I'm looking at selling.
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We have an 1875 $1 bill.
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This one too.
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This is an 1883 brown back 5.
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It's got the brown back.
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Where in the world did you get these?
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WOMAN: My Aunt Margaret gave them to me.
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And my Aunt Margaret was the granddaughter
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of the treasurer of the United States back in the 1800s.
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And was he allowed just to be handing out money or--
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[laughs]
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Well, the interesting thing I noticed about this bill
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is the serial number.
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Look it, it's number one.
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MAN: Yeah, that's really cool actually.
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There is a few condition issues with these.
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You see the holes in the face?
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Yeah, I think I probably put it on my bulletin board
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when I was younger.
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That's hilarious if that's what you did.
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So how much are you looking to get?
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I'm looking for $29,000 for the $1 bill
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and $16,000 for the $5 bill.
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I'm going to have to call in somebody who knows
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a little bit more than I do.
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OK.
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I got a--
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it like a misprinted or a first-print brownback.
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And this is serial number 1.
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These are wonderful.
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This is an iconic piece of history.
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This is serial number 1.
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This was the beginning years of the United States currency
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as opposed to all of the banks issuing
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their own separate currency.
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MAN: What do you think they're worth?
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The fact that this is serial number 1 is everything.
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The bill with the number 1 serial number
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is, in my opinion, worth $15,000 retail.
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And the Ashland brownback is worth $5,000 retail.
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You heard what my expert had to say.
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And I'm comfortable offering $16,000.
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$22,000?
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MAN: No, I can't go that high.
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So that's your final offer, $16,000 for both?
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$16,500, yeah.
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Yeah, I can't take that.
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You want to sell just the $5 bill for $4,000?
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I will take your offer, $4,000 for the $5 bill.
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All right, cool.
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I've got a $5 New Zealand note here signed by Ed Hillary.
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Sweet.
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As you probably know, Ed Hillary was
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the first person to climb Mt.
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Everest.
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He's the only live person to actually
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be put on a New Zealand note.
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So how much do you want for it?
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So I'd like $250.
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I think it's a fair price.
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Could I give you 2 and 1/4?
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Could you split the difference?
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$235?
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Done.
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OK, deal.
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Perfect.
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Check this out.
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You have a piece of a $20 bill.
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It is a piece of a $20 bill from the DB Cooper hijacking.
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He jumped out of a 727 in November of 1971 with $200,000.
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This is cool.
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The only hijacking never solved.
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It was 1971.
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There was a plane flight.
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He gave the stewardess a note saying he had a bomb.
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He demanded a parachute and $200,000 in cash.
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They landed, gave him what he wanted, took back off.
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And he jumped out.
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Exactly.
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It's the only unsolved hijacking in world history.
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No trace of DB Cooper has ever been found.
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And he could be sitting on a beach someplace.
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Nobody knows exactly what happened.
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It'll go down in history for hundreds of years.
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MAN: How much do you want?
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I really want $2,000.
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Some of the larger fragments go for way more money than that.
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I'm thinking, like, 1,000 bucks.
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$1,800 was going to be my lowest.
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MAN: How about 1,500 bucks?
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I'm really got to have $1,700.
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MAN: Rick, go ahead and split it at $1,600.
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MAN: $1,600 is a little low.
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No, it's not.
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That's what we can pay.
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- All right. - All right.
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You have a deal.
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All right, I'll meet you right up front.
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Thank you, much, sir.
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OK, thank you.