Pawnbroker
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A pawnbroker is an individual who offers secured loans to people by taking items of personal property as collateral. A pawnbrokering entity is called a pawnshop or pawnbrokerage. While many items can
A pawnshop business in Munich, Germany in 2014
Helsingin Pantti's pawnbroker in Helsinki, Finland in 2023
A London shop displays the traditional pawnbroker's sign
Provident Loan Society in New York City, a charitable pawnbroker
Lombard banking
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Lombard banking refers to the business of Italian moneylenders generally referred to as "Lombards". The term was often used in a derogatory sense, as Lombard banking was associated with the sin of usu
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…Italy, owing to its symbolic meaning in heraldry. This refers to the Italian region of Lombardy, where pawn shop banking originated under the name of Lombard banking. It has been conjectured that the golden balls were originally three flat yellow effigies of bezants, or gold coins, laid heraldically upon a sable…
Rue des Lombards in Compiègne, France
Lombard Street in London