Traders Jewelry and Loan is happy to purchase a wide array of fine jewelry as the best Pawn Shop in the Encino area. Occasionally, someone will ask if they can pawn a piece made with cubic zirconia.  Even worse is when someone actually tries to pawn or sell cubic zirconia, thinking its a real diamond.  Our experts have an array of tests to determine an item’s worth and we are always disappointed to have to tell a customer that their piece is not the real deal.  Cubic zirconia is an almost worthless stone which is very rarely set into gold or other valuable metals.  Unless the setting itself has a value, cubic zirconia jewelry will not be accepted by any Encino Pawn Shop.