NGC Slabbed Genuine Morgan Dollar

Well, I guess you learn something new everyday here.

IMO simply authenticates it as genuine(real), not counterfeit, not complicated, and purely a marketing ploy.

I used to watch them for some of the interesting items brought in but stopped. The show's characters' personalities got to be too immature and self grandiose for me, IMO.

Pickers is scripted, of course, but I've met Dani D & the crew at an event in Waco, TX and they were genuinely nice people who believe it's important to recycle and reuse items from our past instead of condemning them to the scrap pile. When you see Jersey going ape over some pre-War furniture or old Harley parts on the show, that's exactly how he is in real life. It's like a kid in a candy store, and kind of contagious. Chip & Joanna Gaines were also there, and since I have a family friend who works at Joanna's restaurant, I was able to (very briefly) meet them as well during the same event. Both were gracious and polite and took time to shake my hand as well as those of the two other friends with us.

Of course, in all fairness, most reality TV is scripted. So it would not surprise me at all if most of what happens on Pawn Stars is completely scripted with prescreened "customers" and carefully selected items. We have an employee we hired about 3 months ago who worked at a pawn store with her now ex-husband for the last 20 something years, and she thinks Pawn Stars is an absolute riot, because at least here in Texas, hardly anyone ever comes in with mega-valuable, ultra-rare items looking to pawn them, certainly not several customers per day. I guess in Vegas that could happen, but I've never been to World Famous Gold & Silver in real life, so I don't know. Tools are big pawn business here, especially air tools and power tools, but that probably wouldn't captivate audiences to watch someone haggling over a used Snap-On 1/2" drive air impact gun.

That being said, would anyone really want to watch a show where the Pickers cast spends all their time following up on a lead and finds out that it's a bunch of worthless junk in dangerous old barns and houses being hawked by a crazy hoarder who's asking insane prices for it? Because that's what happens on most picks. That's why most of the episodes feature highly scrutinized and carefully selected "leads" that have been vetted well in advance, to avoid wasting their (and the audience's) time and money, or unnecessarily putting their health at risk. I remember going on picking runs in the Hill Country with my mom and her best friend back in the 1980s when I was a kid, and as a pre-teen it was the most interminably boring time of my life. Hours upon hours of "estate sales" with different variations on the same common household items, with maybe once in awhile them finding something that was both worthy of picking up and actually not priced by delusional relatives or estate sale agents. At least I got to see some very pretty country areas, so it wasn't all bad!

paralyse, American Pickers runs an ad in our local newspaper every year soliciting for places to "pick". They're not "free styling" as they say on the show.

Wasn't there a 1932 quarter on that show that had an added mintmark?

Been in the store . Place is pretty much a typical dumpster
Pawn Place , much smaller than it appears on TV .
The big item when we were there , The Old Man Silver Rounds
at over the top pricing . None of the cast were anywhere to be had ..
In my opinion , all sizzle no bacon !

I thought it was common knowledge that Pawn Stars is scripted. I think they closed the store during filming and the "customers" all pre-selected. It's Antiques Roadshow with cheesy dialogue and invented "drama", but it's entertaining. Reruns air most of Sunday where I am, and I mute all the "drama" and just tune in when an item comes on.