HISTORY OF PAWNSHOPS
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John Doe
San Francisco, CA
When you come into a pawn shop, you never know what you're going to find within it's walls. Here at the Cash Palace Pawn Shop, we get many comments and compliments about how clean the store is, how nice it smells, and how wonderful all the displays are of the items out for sale. With a Pawn shop you have the best of two worlds: a wide variety of one-of-a-kind items that come at a low price, plus a financial lending business if you are ever in need of a little money.
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As mankind's oldest financial institution, pawnbroking carries on a tradition with a rich history. Pawnbroking can be traced back at least 3,000 years to ancient China, and has been found in the earliest written histories of Greek and Roman civilizations. During the Middle Ages, certain usury laws imposed by the church prohibited the charging of interest on loans, thus limiting pawnbroking to people who had religious beliefs outside of the church. Out of economic necessity, and because of problems in the banking system, pawnshops made a resurgence in later years. The House of the Lombards operated pawnshops throughout Europe. They even counted royalty, such as King Edward III of England, among their clientele during the 14th century. The symbol of the Lombards' operations was the three gold balls that still remains the trademark of pawnshops.
