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Plus, visitors can pose for a photo with the largest gold nugget in the world, which is on display on the casino floor. The Golden Nugget offers more than 2,300 deluxe guest rooms and suites a high-energy casino featuring the most popular slot and video poker machines, table games, race and sports book and poker room nightly entertainment world-class restaurants luxury spa and salon and The Tank, a year-round outdoor swimming pool complete with a live shark aquarium. See the things others never see.Winner of the AAA Four-Diamond Award since 1977, the Golden Nugget Las Vegas is the most luxurious resort on the Fremont Street Experience, and consistently receives critical acclaim for exceeding customer expectations. Mobsters -singers - gamblers and shills all molded Las Vegas into what she is today. While you take your fill of pictures and selfies of 60 pounds of solid gold, I tell the fascinating story of how Kevin Hillier originally found the treasure. The Hand of Faith is still on display at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas today, and visitors can see it for themselves in the casino's Gold Tower lobby.ĭuring my Fremont Street Downtown Walking tours we also stop by the Hand of Faith Golden Nugget. In 2007, the Golden Nugget Casino was sold to Landry's, Inc., a hospitality and entertainment company owned by businessman Tilman Fertitta.

The casino's owner, Steve Wynn, put the nugget on display in the lobby of the Golden Nugget for several years, where it became a popular tourist attraction.

The nugget weighs 27.21 kilograms (60 pounds) and is the largest gold nugget ever found with a metal detector.Īfter its discovery, the Hand of Faith was sold several times before being purchased by the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1981 for over a million dollars. The Hand of Faith is a famous gold nugget discovered in 1980 by Kevin Hillier with a metal detector near Kingower, a small town in Victoria, Australia.

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