Why You Should Bring Your Gold To Us

   You have seen those crazy commercials offering to buy your gold.  All you have to do is mail it in and they cut you a check.  But what are you paying for this convenience?  Look at the video below.
   We carefully examine your gold, check it with multiple tools to verify the karat, pay for any stones we can and then offer you our best price.  This price has been secret shopped by the like of the Salvation Army and we offered the highest in the area.  We not only beat our local competitors in Sonora, Murphys, Jamestown, Columbia, Jackson, Stockton, and all the areas between but we give amazing customer service.  We explain the process every step of the way.  The more money we pay you the more money that gets infused into the local economy and helps everyone in the community.  Come visit Calaveras Coin & Pawn with your unwanted jewelry, dental gold, and silver.  We also pawn jewelry if you just need a short term collateral loan.
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A Huge Benefit To Pawing With Calaveras Coin & Pawn

   The advantage of pawn shops like Calaveras Coin & Pawn is that they act as a bank for consumers who have no bank accounts, provide speedy access to loans, and are licensed and regulated. Those who pawn items lose no more than their collateral if they fail to repay the loan, but their credit file will not be negatively impacted and they won’t receive collection calls. 
   Purchasers can find bargains and be assured that they are not purchasing stolen goods, and even in some instances benefit from a layaway service to reserve what they cannot afford to purchase on the spot.

Thank You All... We Hope Howard Is Proud!

Angels Camp, Calaveras Coin, Calaveras Coins, Angels Camp Coins, Coin Shop
Howard Wesely Founder of
Calaveras Coins & Collectibles
   We would like to thank everyone for their kind words of support and well wishes as we continue to strive to run the business in a way that would have made Howard Wesely proud.  We also look forward to offering a valuable service as a pawnbroker and being the only pawn shop in Calaveras County.  Calaveras Coins has updated the name to Calaveras Coin & Pawn, moved four doors down to a larger location that more easily accommodates our clients and our merchandise.  However one thing that has not changed is that small town one on one customer service that you have come to expect from a business that has been supported by the community of Calaveras, Tuolumne and Amador but throughout the state of California, the United States and even the world do to our frequent visits by tourist.  These tourist in turn become clients and then friends and some who have been with us since the beginning like family. Whom come back year after year once they experience the wonderful customer service and flat out amazing prices at Calaveras Coin and now Pawn here in downtown Angels Camp.  Thanks again for helping make this move and transition possible and to our beloved Howard who started it all... rest in peace.

5 non-Gold Treasures Stored at Fort Knox

Think Fort Knox is just for gold? Well, that's a lot of bullion. Here are five more items that have been stored in the vault!
1. The Magna Carta
The Magna Carta has traveled the world, and one of its four known copies spent a long layover in Fort Knox during World War II. Its original American destination: The British Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. When World War II erupted a few months later, the document was sent to the vault for safekeeping. It was a Fort Knox life for the Magna Carta until 1947, when it was returned to Lincoln Cathedral.

2. & 3. The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
The Magna Carta wasn't the only historical document hanging out among the gold bars during World War II. It was in good, American company — with the original Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The papers were moved from Washington, D.C. to Fort Knox two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. But don't picture them in a museum display. They were kept under lock and key... and sealed with lead... and placed in another protective container. All told, the documents were kept safe by some 150 pounds of gear, not to mention the fact that they were in Fort Knox. They returned to D.C. in 1944.

4. The Holy Crown of Hungary
Sure, it's made of gold, pearls, and other jewels. But back in the day, the Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as the Crown of Saint Stephen) was also thought to be divine. Hungarian King Coloman the Book Lover, who reigned from 1095 to 1116, wrote that the Holy Crown, not the king, was the true leader of the country. That's a lot of power for a piece of bling! Important as it is, the Holy Crown's been stolen, lost, and found throughout history. At the end of World War II in 1945, the U.S. 86th Infantry Division recovered the crown in Mattsee, Austria. When it was returned to the Hungarian Crown Guard, the unit considered the threat of the Soviet Union. So guess what happened? Yep, the Holy Crown was sent to Fort Knox for the duration of the Cold War. It stayed there and got the royal security treatment until 1978.

5. Tons of morphine and opium
Among all the gold in Fort Knox is a cache of morphine and opium worth millions. And no, these were not recovered during the War on Drugs. Instead, they were stored back in 1955 in preparation for the Cold War. The U.S. military wanted to be sure to have enough emergency painkillers in the event that our access to foreign opium sources was cut off. The tricky part: What to do with all these drugs we don't need anymore. Selling all the remaining morphine could've depressed the domestic market, so the U.S. spent millions refining the old opium into morphine sulphate in 1993. It's still locked up, just like you'd be if you got caught with that many drugs.

Come visit your local Fort Knox at Calaveras Coin & Pawn in downtown Frogtown (Angels Camp) or call at (209)736-COIN
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Calaveras Coin & Pawn Welcomes You To New Store

   Calaveras Coin & Pawn wants to welcome all you folks to come visit us at our new location at the corner in downtown Angels Camp. 1283 S Main St. We will be adding pawn to our many services within days but until then check us out at www.calaverascoinandpawn.com - Bringing the History Back to Historic Downtown. Frogs, Coins,Twain and Jewelry, Silver and Gold Things! Stop in and say howdy!

Why Come to Calaveras Coin & Pawn to Get a Pawn Loan?


   Our representatives will always treat you with courtesy, respect, and efficiency. We will carefully assess your material for purity and value, weigh it accurately, and make you a fair offer. We’ll explain our valuation methods and appraisals so you understand exactly what you have and how we’ve arrived at the value.

   As a family owned and operated business for nearly 25 years we understand the importance of community and fairness. We will always do our absolute best to help you out in whatever situation. Discover the secret Mother Lode residence have known for a quarter century, experience our amazing customer service. Calaveras Coin & Pawn - Because You Deserve The Best!

Samuel Clemens Mines For Gold & Instead Publishes Book


   At the start of the Civil War, Samuel Clemens lost his job as a steamboat pilot and travelled west to Nevada and California. He pieced together a ramshackle existence by prospecting for silver, mining for gold, and working as a local reporter and correspondent selling sketches and essays—by Mark Twain—to several newspapers and magazines.

   In 1865, the nearly destitute Clemens spent three months in the California mining camps of Jackass Hill and Angel’s Camp with Jim and William Gillis and their partner, Dick Stoker. It was at the bar inside the Angels Hotel (modern day home of Calaveras Coin & Pawn) that he first heard of the “jumping frog”—the story that launched his literary career.

   Upon his return to San Francisco from the camps, Clemens received an invitation from the popular American humorist, Artemus Ward, to contribute a sketch to his forthcoming travel book about the Nevada Territory. Mark Twain’s story arrived too late to be included in the volume, but Ward’s publisher, George W. Carleton, forwarded the submission to Henry Clapp, who first published it as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” in theSaturday Press in New York on November 18, 1865. It was immediately reprinted in newspapers and periodicals across the country, including an unauthorized appearance in a Beadle’s Dime Book, the popular and inexpensive fiction series that anticipated today’s mass market paperback books.

   Just over a year later, Webb would collect and edit sketches from Clemens’s scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and publish them in Mark Twain’s first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches.

What Diamond Shape Is Your Favorite?


At Calaveras Coin & Pawn we can have a huge stock of diamond rings, pendants, earrings, bracelets and more.  If we don't have in stock what you are looking for we will order it for you.  Also we have no interest lay-away available for up to 4 months.  Call us at 209-677-PAWN

The Advantages of Pawning With Us!

   The advantages of pawning your items with Calaveras Coin & Pawn over other kinds of borrowing are the speed of obtaining the cash, and no credit check. Whilst pay day loans are issued without credit checks any late payments or defaults are generally reported to the credit bureaus. Those who fail to make the payment on their pawn goods do not have their default reported anywhere, as the pawn broker is already in possession of the collateral which they are then free to sell on. 


   Calaveras Coin & Pawn issues loans on a myriad of goods including coins, jewelry, electronics, tools, and other items of significant value. Unredeemed goods which are then offered for sale can represent a good buy for consumers, at less than typical retail price. We have even introduced a layaway service to our customers for your special occasion or for holiday seasons.


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Do You Want To Sell or Pawn?


   Rising gold and silver prices, home foreclosures and a recession are attracting more middle- and upper-class customers seeking to sell items or obtain a short-term loan.
This is where Calaveras Coin & Pawn can help especially those clients who are new to the business and don't know a thing about how to sell or pawn their items. Here are some tips to help.
Do YOU WANT TO PAWN OR SELL?

   You'll get more money by selling something, but a pawnshop owner with a long-term view would prefer to make you a loan so that you'll return for more business. Gerad Slayton, pawnbroker for Calaveras Coin & Pawn, based in Angels Camp, CA., says he typically pays 10 percent to 20 percent more to a seller because he doesn't have to hold the item as long as he does for a loan.

Slayton says he sells the items he buys after 30 days, as require by the state of California. Items held as loan collateral are for 4 months. So it depends if you do not want the item back its better to sell it outright however if you would prefer to get your item back then by all means pawn it.

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