RYAN: Hey.
CHUMLEE RUSSELL:
Hi, how you doing?
 I have a coin I think
you might be interested in.
 What do you got here?
COIN OWNER: It's a shekel of
Tyre, like from the bible.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
 Yeah, we only buy
American coins, man,
so you'll have to take
it somewhere else.
 Hold on, hold on.
Since when do we only start
buying American coins?
 I thought that was our rule?
RICK HARRISON: No.
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Whatever.
RYAN: I found the
coin in an action lot,
and I thought it was
really neat and may
have a lot of significant
historical value
to it, especially
for it to be 2,000
years old from biblical times.
And I think they can give
me a lot of cash for it.
 Basically what
you have is a really
cool coin that is collectible,
because it's from Jerusalem.
It's from the time of Christ.
Supposedly, Judas received
30 pieces of silver
to basically drop
a dime on Jesus.
And it was probably
a coin like this.
RYAN: So there is
a possibility this
could be one of those coins.
Is that correct?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
 No.
[LAUGHS] The odds are
highly against it.
They made millions of them.
RYAN: Sure, OK.
But there's still a possibility?
 It's however minute, OK.
The shekel of Tyre was
a really common coin
a couple thousand years
ago in the Middle East,
but there aren't many left.
And even though we
can't prove that this
is one of the infamous 30
pieces of silver from the bible,
it is still valuable
due to its rarity.
It's really neat how they
made coins back then.
They struck these with a
hammer that was four feet long,
and the hammer had
the face on it.
And they literally stood
four feet back and struck it.
[HAMMER CLANG]
Even the most skilled
guy with that hammer
was never going to get a
perfect strike every time.
That's why you'll see like
this edge is off center.
They're all off-center
a little bit.
No two identical.
Everything about this is right.
It's perfect.
The problem is
someone cleaned it.
Any coin collector considers
a clean coin a damaged coin.
If this wasn't cleaned, I'd
offer you $5,000 for it.
 Wow.
RICK HARRISON: Now
the big question is,
how much do you want for it?
 $2,000.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
 What do you think, Chum?
 It's old.
 [LAUGHS] Will you take 14?
 I can't do 1,400.
I just can't really.
It's got the historical value.
 And it's also been cleaned.
RYAN: How about 1,750?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
 1,500?
 I could do 16.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
 Yeah, 1,600.
 Deal.
RICK HARRISON: OK.
All right, you want
to go write him up?
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Yeah.
RYAN: $1,600 should help out.
We've got a lot of expenses
with the extra kid,
and hopefully that'll at
least get us some diapers
bought for a few months.
[CASH REGISTER RINGS]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL:
So your dad thinks
he just bought the
coin that Judas
was paid to betray Jesus with.
RICK HARRISON: No.
 How are you ever
going to prove that?
RICHARD HARRISON: No, he's
not going to prove it.
What are you going do,
test it for Jesus' DNA?
 [EXHALES SHARPLY] I make a
good buy on an ancient coin,
and around here,
for some reason,
I have to defend myself.
Second-guessing all my
decisions has become
like a hobby for these guys.
RICHARD HARRISON: What
did you buy, Rick?
RICK HARRISON: It wasn't the
coin that Judas was paid.
It's the same type of coin
from the same time period.
It's not the coin, Chum.
I got a good deal on it.
I paid $1,600 for
it, and as soon
as I can get it authenticated,
hopefully get 2,500, three
grand, somewhere around there.
I'm willing to bet
I'm going to make
a pretty decent profit on this.
Hopefully, that
will shut them up.
 Well, the price
don't sound bad, Rick.
RICK HARRISON: Do you
do anything around here
anymore, besides complain?
 Well, that's part of my job.
[LAUGHTER]
[CASH REGISTER RINGS]
COREY HARRISON: What's up, Andy?
ANDY: Hey, guys, I got
some potentially bad news.
COREY HARRISON: Andy is
our head of security,
so when he says he has bad
news, it can be really bad.
What's up?
ANDY: An out-of-town detective
has called Las Vegas police.
The shekel that you
recently brought in, there's
a chance it might be stolen.
They want to put it on hold.
[BLEEP]
 Well that's $1,600
down the toilet.
RICK HARRISON: Everything we buy
goes into a national computer
system.
All right, you want
to go write him up?
 Yeah.
 And if it comes up stolen,
we have to give it back.
It definitely sucks,
but it's part of doing
business in a pawn shop.
OK, so this guy stole it?
ANDY: Not the guy
that brought it to us.
RICK HARRISON: So, what,
it's been in multiple hands?
And I'm the last guy, and I'm
the one who gets stuck with it?
ANDY: Pretty much.
RICK HARRISON: Well, they're
going to have to wait.
I sent it out to get graded.
COREY HARRISON:
That's my dad for you.
When it rains, it pours.
Obviously, we can't guess
what's stolen or not,
but throwing away more money
on top of it is just his M.O.
RICK HARRISON: It
sucks that it happened,
but what am I going to do?
 Damn it, Rick, you can be
more careful on what you buy.
 Well how am I supposed
to be more careful?
This guy legitimately bought
it from a different guy.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
This is just a great
excuse for you to complain.
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: To
pay for something
and then have to give it back.
COREY HARRISON: [LAUGHS]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: I might
have lost my job over that.
 You know they
have a point, Rick.
 [EXHALES SHARPLY]
[CASH REGISTER RINGS]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL:
There's the guys, Andy.
RICK HARRISON: My security guy,
Andy, found out that the shekel
I bought was stolen.
Now he's got some
sort of update.
I hate to think what
could the problem be now.
So what's up?
ANDY: The coin we've been
working with the police on,
turns out that the guy who
originally owned it got
compensated for his loss.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
It's ours.
They released it this morning.
COREY HARRISON: So
it's not stolen.
We dodged a bullet there.
Luckily for us, the
coin was insured,
and the insurance company
paid for the loss.
So that makes the
coin free and clear.
 Hey, Rick, don't do
the end-zone dance yet.
We're don't even know if
the damn thing is real.
RICK HARRISON: If it's
real, will you shut up?
RICHARD HARRISON: Probably not.
[CASH REGISTER RINGS]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Well
here's the moment of truth.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
 Hand me those scissors.
 You think that shekel's real?
COREY HARRISON: I don't know.
I just think
somebody should have
checked before we bought it.
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Yeah,
hopefully next time Rick
will be more careful.
RICK HARRISON: I've been in the
coin business my entire life.
It's real.
There's no problem.
We get to keep the coin, and
they're still giving me hell.
It never ends.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRINKLING AND RUSTLING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
CHUMLEE RUSSELL: Is it real?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
It's not real.
 It's real.
See, I told you.
COREY HARRISON: Good for you,
after 30 years in the coin
business, you got it right.
[LAUGHS]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
 [SLOW CLAPPING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
RICK HARRISON: I hate my family.
