From the Super Bowl ring belonging to a member of Rick's favorite team to the single most expensive item he ever bought, let's take a look at the eight biggest payouts in Pawn Stars history.
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00:00On the History Channel series Pawn Stars, the experts at the world-famous Gold and Silver
00:05Pawn Shop in Las Vegas meet regular folks with unusual objects to sell, sometimes worthless,
00:10but often surprisingly valuable. Here are some of the biggest payouts in Pawn Stars
00:14history.
00:15Dutch East India Trading Company Bell
00:17The woman who brought this 17th-century ship's bell into the shop was actually considering
00:21putting it out on a yard sale. Richard Oldman Harrison thought the bell had to be a reproduction.
00:26But the expert they brought in confirmed that it was indeed a shipwreck bell from 1602 and
00:30was worth a small fortune.
00:32$15,000 give or take
00:351715 Spanish Fleet Gold Coin
00:38In 1715, a Spanish fleet carrying millions of pesos worth of gold sank to the bottom
00:42of the ocean off the coast of Florida. Lucky customer Jody inherited an exceptional gold
00:46coin from the shipwreck. At first, Rick Harrison thought the coin was in too good of a condition
00:50to be genuine, but the expert confirmed that it was authentic and was worth a cool $18,000.
00:56From everything I can see on this one, I'd say it's absolutely genuine."
01:05Joe Green's Olympic medals
01:07Olympian jumpin' Joe Green came across hard times in the late 90s, so he sold the Harrisons
01:12his Olympic bronze medals from the 1992 and 1996 Games. Rick reportedly assured him that
01:17despite their $30,000 value, he would never sell the medals. But in this world, everything
01:22has a price.
01:23I'm asking $20,000 for the Atlanta one, $10,000 for the Barcelona.
01:27Order of the White Eagle Medallion
01:30A very lucky yard sale fanatic picked up this medal for only $0.75 and sold it to Rick for
01:34a cool $6,000. It turned out the medal dated back to the era of Tsarist occupation of Poland,
01:40and Rick eventually resold the medal for $30,000.
01:42Book of Mormon
01:44Adam got more than he bargained for when expert Rebecca Romney appraised his 5th edition copy
01:48of the Book of Mormon from 1842.
01:51I would appraise this book actually at about $40,000.
01:56Rick and Adam finally settled on a purchase price of $24,000, and both walked away happy
02:01with the transaction.
02:021554 Spanish Shipwreck Gold Bar
02:05When one man was cleaning out the belongings of his grandfather, he found a gold bar hidden
02:09away in a box. Its meltdown value alone was $24,000, but when an expert confirmed it was
02:14from a 1554 Spanish shipwreck, the price doubled instantly.
02:17So you're telling me that's worth $48,000?
02:20In that neighborhood.
02:21Yeah!
02:222001 Patriot Super Bowl Ring
02:25Patriots defensive back Brock Williams had a hard patch, and he decided to pawn his 2001
02:29Patriot Super Bowl ring for a modest $2,600. He never came back for it, and the ring became
02:35the property of the shop. While similar rings have sold for around $30,000 on auction websites,
02:40Rick isn't ready to let go of his favorite item anytime soon, which is why he set the
02:43sale price on this beauty to a whopping $100,000.
02:47John F. Kennedy's Cigar Box
02:49The biggest payout ever on Pawn Stars is thanks to a piece of presidential history. A seller
02:53walked into the shop with a box of cigars that once sat on John F. Kennedy's desk in
02:57the Oval Office. After some haggling, Rick managed to purchase JFK's cigar box for $60,000.
03:03For comparison, a similar JFK humidor was purchased by the publisher of Cigar Aficionado
03:07in 1996 for $575,000.