Pawn Stars Rip Off artists!! My boss's niece stole some rare coins that had been graded and were sealed in plastic cases and were valued at about $40,000. She sold them at the Pawn Stars pawn shop for about $10,000. The police found this out but were told by the pawn shop that, since the law doesn't require them to hold CURRENCY for any waiting period, they had already melted the coins down. Even the police investigator knows this is bullshit as the coins by weight would only have been worth about $7,000 and no pawn shop pays out more than a fraction of the actual value of an item. A pawn shop like this would CERTAINLY have known what these coins were worth as they were graded at the very top of the scale for coins. It's good to know that, even with all their success, they are still just scummy rip-off artists at their core! I know they lost a viewer with me.