Over the last couple months I've been sharing some of the fun Silver Strikers commemorative tokens that could be won by playing the Silver Strikers slot machines at casinos around the world. Often they can be one of the few reminders of hotels and casinos that have been closed permanently when the could no longer pay their loan payments. Today I wanted to share another piece of Las Vegas history with another token that came from a casino that no longer exists.
The Hard Rock Hotel opened it's doors in 1995 just off of the Las Vegas Strip. It was the first hotel that was themed with rock n roll and was rather small when compared to the much larger hotel/resorts all along the Strip. They even had The Eagles and Sheryl Crow play at their grand opening! Sadly it didn't take long before the hotel ran into cash flow problems and multiple changes in ownership ensued. It was renovated and expanded several times but ultimately closed it's doors for good in 2020 after Virgin Hotels bought them out.
One interesting fact that I didn't know is that actor Ben Affleck was permanently banned from the Hard Rock's black jack tables in 2014 on suspicion of card counting. Back when the mafia ran Las Vegas if you were caught counting cards you weren't banned, you most likely ended up with broken fingers or in a shallow grave in the desert! So I guess Ben got off easy...
Have a look at this gorgeous token:
About he token:
Casino: Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Denomination: $20 Gaming Token value
Composition: 99.9% silver with heavy gold electroplate
Mint: Global Minting
Edge: Full reeded
Obverse: Hard Rock Hotel logo
Reverse: Fender Stratocaster guitar
Weight: About 0.6 Troy ounces
This token is a real beauty! The silver is electroplated with 24 karat gold in what they call "heavy gold electroplate". How that differs from standard electroplating I have never been able to figure out. It's one of the prettier tokens that I own, and if recall I think I bought it off eBay . Since they are 99.9% silver they're also great for collectors and stackers!
In front of the Hard Rock Hotel they had a large Fender Stratocaster as their sign, at the time of installation it was the largest Fender Stratocaster in the world. However it now been disassembled and was sold off after the closure of the hotel. But I found this picture of the iconic guitar:
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What a gorgeous shot, I just had to share it!
The Fender Stratocaster electric guitar was first released for sale in 1954 and has been produced ever since. It featured three pickups and a spring tension vibrato system allowing a temporary pitch change on the strings. Over the years it has gone under many changes and evolutions to improve the sound. It has been the guitar of choice for many legendary guitarist like Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townsend, and Eddie Van Halen. Van Halen combined parts of various guitars to the Stratocaster body to produce the Frankenstrat in an effort to produce unique sounds that no other guitar could replicate. There is a copy of it on display in the National Museum of American History which is part of The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.
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One of Jimi Hendrix's Fender Stratocasters
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Eddie Van Halen's Frakenstrat
If you're interested in a more detailed history under references I've included some interesting Wikipedia articles.
The Hard Rock Hotel didn't last very long and is now part of Las Vegas history... but at least you can still own a piece of history with the Silver Striker tokens!
Thank you for stopping by and taking time to read my post, I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any suggestions, comments or questions please feel free to leave them below. Thanks for you your support and have a great rest of the weekend everyone!
Keep on stacking!
And my disclaimer:
Gold and silver stacking can be a fun hobby but isn't for everyone. You can lose money. I'm not a financial advisor and this isn't financial advice, please always do your own research before spending your hard earned money.
References:
https://www.silverstrikers.com/Web/Catalogs/SilverStrikes/Nevada/HardRockLVnv/Hard-Rock-LVnv-Page-05.php/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stratocaster_players
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Stratocaster
https://guitar.com/features/artist-rigs/rare-guitars-jimi-hendrixs-1963-fender-stratocaster/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstrat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Rock_Hotel_and_Casino_(Las_Vegas)
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Casino Tokens are awesome. But Jimi's Guitar man... that's sweet.
They are awesome! I knew when I was putting this post up I had to put one of Jimi's guitars up. He was amazing!
I'm the owner of a Fender Squire bullet, made in Korea, hardly anything like the pre-CBS made Fender Stratocasters played by the legends. I can do a mean Air guitar. 🎸
Air guitar is awesome too! Those old Strats played by the legends are amazing and worth a fortune!
How do you like your bullet?
I got a Peavey Heritage 100W Tube amp somewhere. I haven't played it in years. The guitar needs new strings.
Nice! That's always a problem, lack of time to practice and play. I'm really rusty!
Awesome job and that is super awesome. One of these days I said I was going to learn guitar but I keep putting it off because I've got so much other things to learn and do in my life...
Excellent post indeed man!
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Thanks! I've not played in years, usually just lack of time. I'm glad you liked it! Did you get out to the range yesterday?
Nope my friend ended up not even showing up! So that saved me a hundred bucks! Lol
Ammo is so expensive anymore... I had a friend who has a 50 caliber machine gun in New Mexico who offered to let me go out and shoot. I could never afford it though, each round was $5, I would have needed around $500 bucks minimum to even have any fun!
Each round is like five bucks and even the empty brass is still worth a lot of money! I absolutely feel that...
I was lucky enough to score some 458 socom rounds at $1.33 a piece. Which they wanted 90 cents a piece for the brass that was empty! Just absolutely crazy.
It all costs a fortune anymore! Unless you shoot of crap ammunition. I once fired a Makarov with some cheap Russian ammo. Out of a box of 50 two were misfires and turned my fingers yellow from all the sulfur in the powder. Never did that again. But they were dirt cheap... and there was a reason they were... they sucked!
Yeah I got a premium colt 7.62 soviet upper in a trade. The guy had never fired it until that day. Shot some Russian corrosive ammo through it. All I needed to do was just dip it in water and the corrosive acidic salts would wash off... of course I let the chamber and barrel rust.
Oh well it's a shooter now. I'm gotta keep it! And scored in getting it for a reasonable price. Which the c marked bolt is worth that honestly... And I got the entire thing!
I need to get into reloading when I get my land and tiny home solved!
That's indeed a nice coin, I love the extra pics as well of the guitar! Very cool!
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Currently, I'm dealing with another delivery drama of SEUR. Unbelievable, since we moved here, nothing but issues with every package from them. I can't avoid them as they use SEUR for delivery quite often. Stressing me out if we now lost the package. Checked on Trustpilot, almost 1300 reviews and 95% gives 1 star. Common practice thieves there.
Hopefully, I can figure it out again and avoid them in the future.
You still on the mend?
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That is a horrible review! 95% one star review! Sounds like the whole thing is a scam in order to steal your packages. I hope you can figure out where your package is!
Slowly but surely I am! Hopefully the inflammations stays down for awhile this time.
I know right? I never knew because in our old place there were a few rotten companies but SEUR wasn't one of them. It's shit because most things are just cheaper online and often only online available even.
The company who sent it said it's still in transit, but I'm not so sure if they have updated info. I have the feeling I will have to complain again tomorrow lol.
For now, putting together a bed, which also turns out to be shit as can be but the matrasses arrive today so little choice but to deal with it and ask for partial refund later.
Good to read that it's going better, I wish you a lot of healing vibes and no return of this issue anymore!
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I hope the bed goes ok, and most importantly that the matrasses aren't bad! It's such a nightmare having to call and complain for a partial refund and then the shipping mess... I don't know how you're maintaining your sanity!
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HAHA this made me laugh out loud :)
Oh man, if I were to sum up the incompetence we bumped on the past month, it would not even be funny. Thankfully, my handyman will be able to make it at least so that we can sleep on it. The smell that comes from those matrasses, oof. Today it's not too warm here, but I have to open the windows completely and a blower to the window so the chemical smell leaves (hopefully somewhere today, haha).
I did sleep much better though. I also changed the room in terms of where the bed is and can now slowly start to plan what I want to do to decorate and add some cabinet or drawer.
Money went poof though so I guess it may take a few months. Bedding was surely the most important as well as getting a gas heater which also means closing several contracts for gas bottles (read: deposit twice as high as cost of a bottle).
Anyway, wouldn't want to go back for the world, just drove by the old home and I saw the staircase next to our old window was filled with cans of soda and garbage again. Glad I was not sleeping there :)
The foot healing still? Will check your posts later, to see if you have more good silver stories :)
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Ah man, these are so cool. I wish I had known about them sooner. I have only been to the Hard Rock a couple of times. One of them was after we went to the Hofbrau house for lunch and then the other time was because we were there for a bachelor party and we got a cabana at the club rehab place. It was pretty crazy!
I only went once but I never stayed there. It was a cool place. The Silver Strikers from Hard Rock were the best with the gold plated silver! Vegas is always a lot of fun, especially for bachelor parties!
Really interesting bit of recent History that I knew nothing about!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. I like doing historical posts when I have a cool item to go with it.
The only Hard Rock cafe I have ever been to was in Cancun Mexico. I have no stories because I was really drunk and do not remember much other than the cab driver tried to charge me double for the ride back to my hotel.
That means you must have had a really good time!
There is a huge Hard Rock complex close to where I live, I should stop in sometime and see if they have any silver tokens like this. Check out the video of the guitar hotel and some of what it has, this place is really cool.
That's awesome! Looks like a really nice place! No casino it looks like, too bad. I would love to stay at that hotel!
The casino is there it just doesn't show on the video. The place is huge and has all kind of stuff to offer in addition to the casino.
Wow this one got to be one of the nicer ones
Definitely my favorite one! They have some other gold plated ones as well but I haven't found any at good price in a long time.
Well guess they didnt like Ben's ass in the first place. That guiter on top of the roof sure does looks rock n' roll. By the way are those silver coin worth actually value ,?
No that's just a commemorative chip with a stated gaming value, but the silver is the true value. The tokens tend to be expensive on the collector's market!
That's a cool piece of history! I'm also curious how much gold is electroplated on there. Normally they specify. Very interesting.
No idea, it just states heavy gold electroplate, but it sure looks cool!
The Hard Rock Hotel I used to count off how many Hard Rock Cafes I had been into around the world, it was quite a few!
It is a cool coin!
I have been to so many it's hard to keep track! They demolished the one in Las Vegas so that's no longer an option. Thanks, it's one of my favorite tokens!
Many of my friends have owned “Strats”, fantastic sounding guitars!😀
24k “Heavy Gold electroplating”, you certainly can tell, the Gold pops on this very collectible gaming token!!😀
The gold really is eye catching, it's too bad the Hard Rock was the only one who did it that I know of.
Strats are amazing guitars aren't they?
The hard rock gaming token is definitely a keeper, so very unique, too bad that they were in financial streets, and were bought out!🙄
I would love to pick up one of the original Strats, I’m sure it’s out of my price range Lol!😇
Way out of my price range too! I would love to own one...
I will just rock on with my current “ax”!🤗
Gene Simmons style?
lol …. He really had an “AX” for a guitar!😇🤣
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I saw the Sex Pistols at the Joint @ Hard Rock In 2008 I believe. It was the year Boston beat L.A in NBA finals. I remember cause I bet big while in Vegas on Celtics. Cool collectible 🪙
That was a sweet bet, hope it helped pay for the trip. The Sex Pistols are awesome!
I wish I had more of these, I've been trying to pick up some more but they are selling at too high a premium right now.
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