Pawnbroking – lending money against valuable assets – dates back to biblical times. By some accounts, Queen Isabella of Castile financed Christopher Columbus’s 15th-century discovery of the Americas by pawning her jewels.
典當——以有價值的資產作抵押提供貸款——要回溯到聖經時期。據稱,卡斯提拉的伊莎貝拉女王(Queen Isabella of Castile)曾典當了她的珠寶,爲克里斯多福•哥倫布(Christopher Columbus)15世紀發現美洲之旅提供資金。
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