Under the going rate, a pawnshop loan represents about sixty percent of the sales value of the item pawned, and interest runs from five or six percent a month for a loan from a private pawnshop to as low as 1.5 percent from a public one, as compared with the banks 'eight percent.
一般行情，當鋪提供的典當金約是當品市價的六成。與銀行百分之八的利率相較，民營當鋪一萬元一個月五、六百元，公營當鋪低於一百五十元的利息，明顯偏低。