Hand of Faith

• 129 Fremont Street, Las Vegas, 89101 (Directions)
• at Golden Nugget
• 702-385-7111
• 702-386-8362
• Web site: http://www.goldennugget.com/entertainment/faith.asp

In the spring of 1980, Kevin Hillier took his new metal detector out for a spin in his tiny hometown of Wedderburn, Australia. Instead of a bottle cap or a paper clip, he found a 61-pound golden nugget barely a foot underground. Today, it makes its home in our lobby.

The Hand of Faith is the biggest golden nugget in existence, the second-biggest ever discovered, and the biggest ever found with a metal detector. (And in case you’re wondering, Hillier made out just fine. He sold his golden nugget to the Golden Nugget for over a million dollars.)