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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bigjpst, post: 1092656, member: 21015&quot;]So I just spent the last two days in Las Vegas visiting my family and figured I&#039;d share some of the neat little numismatic related souvenirs that I came across. </p><p>&nbsp; Saturday morning we went to a place Called Red Rock Canyon.[ATTACH]109066.vB[/ATTACH] </p><p>I asked my tour guide(Mom) What made the rocks red, she didn&#039;t know<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />,but they are really cool to look at. There is a scenic drive that goes through the park and you can hike or climb the rocks. There are petroglyphs and wild burros and horses. Although we did or saw none of the above. It was about 40 degrees with the wind blowin pretty good.&nbsp; Ah but when we got to the visitor center I spied this cool little machine [ATTACH]109062.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>You put a dollar in and watch it mint a nice copper token. There was a machine next to it that had pre-made silver-ish tokens as well.</p><p>[ATTACH]109063.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]109064.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>But when mom saw me putting all my cash in these two machines to get some Las Vegas souvenirs she mentioned in passing that she heard about this machine at the Golden Nugget where you could actually put money in and get gold in return...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Needless to say being a coin collector I knew exactly what she was referring to and was not going to rest until I saw this fabled machine with my own two eyes... </p><p>&nbsp;Unfortunately JK, we had tickets to some show called Mystere that although it was pretty awesome in its own right, I could not truly enjoy it with the knowledge that I was going to actually be able to put money in a vending machine and recieve gold in return.</p><p>We got to the Golden Nugget and while searching for the Gold ATM I came across an elongated cent machine that I had to dump some change in.</p><p>[ATTACH]109068.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>All this was pretty cool until I finally found the machine I was looking for. Hidden in a corner of the lobby right next to the largest gold nugget I have ever seen was this little beauty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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