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Message:: [QUOTE="saltysam-1, post: 2017085, member: 23368"]This is known as a Silver Strike. They are only given out in special slot machines instead of money. However, the center medallion is .999 fine silver, the rim around it is brass. Being a Ten Dollar token, it has about .51 to .64 troy ounces of silver present. In 2009 the casino's started making them with a silver clad finish instead of fine silver. Then gamblers could either keep them as a souvenir or get face value in cash at the casino cage. When they first began issuing silver tokens, you could find them from $1 up to $300 in value. The $200 and $300 token had to be given as a hand pay because of it's size and weight. Both had over a Troy Pound in silver content, the $300 one, close to a pound and a half. Now they are only found from $10 and up and made in   clad to boot. Twenty nine different mints have made these strikes for the casinos. Only four have made issues for a second casino. This Strike has a mint mark of "G" for the Global Mint. It was made special for the McCarran Airport during the Millennium and is marked accordingly. Only three machines dispensed them. McCarran has no other form of gaming but slots.[ATTACH=full]364245[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]364246[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]