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the original short-term lender: bring collateral, leave with cash, dignity optional.
means someone who loans you money against an item you hand over as security, and keeps it if you never come back for it.
from the three golden balls sign traces to the medici family crest, adopted by lombard merchant-bankers who dominated medieval pawnbroking across europe.
symbol originthree balls once meant medici banking, not luck
oldest professionpawnbroking predates formal banking by centuries
unredeemed itemsbecome the broker's property, then get resold
regulation heavymost countries cap interest rates on pawn loans