pawnbroker

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You can always head to your local pawnbroker or a merchant who specializes in coins or precious metals.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

Because of these limits, banks kept interest rates between 6 and 12 percent and didn’t do much business with the poor, who in a pinch took their valuables to the pawnbroker or the loan shark.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

The customer and pawnbroker agree an amount that can be loaned against the item and how much interest will be charged on the loan.

From BBC • May 13, 2022

As Birmingham asks, “Why not peer over Raskolnikov’s shoulder while he’s face-to-face with the stupid, deaf, sick, greedy pawnbroker, waiting for his moment?”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2021

“It’s like a loan. I’ll give a pawnbroker my stuff. That person will then say, ‘I can give you this amount of money for them.’

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young