# Just curious:  What would a Medal of Freedom be worth at a good pawn shop?

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**Created:** [January 13, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-what-would-a-medal-of-freedom-be-worth-at-a-good-pawn-shop/777061 "2017-01-13T18:30:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-what-would-a-medal-of-freedom-be-worth-at-a-good-pawn-shop/777061/1 "2017-01-13T18:30:58Z")

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''_Joe Biden Reacts in the Most Joe Biden Possible Way to Obama’s Surprise Medal of Freedom’’_ -Slate

What would a Medal of Freedom be worth at a good pawn shop?

What would Jo Biden’s Medal of Freedom be worth at a good pawn shop?

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-what-would-a-medal-of-freedom-be-worth-at-a-good-pawn-shop/777061/2 "2017-01-13T18:39:10Z")

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> [@janeslogin](#):
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> ''_Joe Biden Reacts in the Most Joe Biden Possible Way to Obama’s Surprise Medal of Freedom’’_ -Slate
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> What would a Medal of Freedom be worth at a good pawn shop?
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> What would Jo Biden’s Medal of Freedom be worth at a good pawn shop?

More than the combined harvested organs of every person who still supports Donald Drumpf if sold packed in ice on the black market in China?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-what-would-a-medal-of-freedom-be-worth-at-a-good-pawn-shop/777061/3 "2017-01-13T18:58:53Z")

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If you’re the legal owner of the medal, you can sell it. The price would depend on how famous the owner was.

Jimmy Cagney’s sold in 2000 for $51,000.

I would suspect that no pawnshop would pay more than $500. for the average specimen.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-what-would-a-medal-of-freedom-be-worth-at-a-good-pawn-shop/777061/4 "2017-01-13T19:02:01Z")

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Thanks.