Greece has seen an upsurge in small companies and shops
offering to buy gold, driven by record prices and the need many people
have to raise cash during hard times when jobs are uncertain and money
scarce.
"Sell your gold," "We buy your jewels," the signs read in Ermou
Street, a pedestrian precinct right in the heart of Athens thronged with
people doing their Christmas shopping, as money changers and jewellers
get in on the act too.
