El Cortez Casino Silver Strike 2019 Life is Beautiful Limited 1000 Blue Cap

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El Cortez Casino - Las Vegas, Nevada
Silver Strike Token
Life is Beautiful
El Cortez Celebrating 78 Years
Year Released: September 2019
Limited Edition: 1000
Mint Mark: S (Sunshine Mint)
Case/Capsule measures approximately 2 ¼  inches in diameter
SSC#: EClvnv-057 - CLAD - Blue Capsule - Colorized
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Front/Face -
Center: El Cortez Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1941-2019, Celebrating 78 Years
Rim:
Limited Edition Ten Dollar Gaming Token, Las Vegas, Nevada
Back/Reverse -
Center: Life is Beautiful, El Cortez Hotel & Casino
Rim: Limited Edition Ten Dollar Gaming Token, El Cortez
Please look closely at the photos as they are part of the
description
.  There are photos with the case off and with the case on to show the true beauty and detail and condition of the token.  The case may have scratches typical of circulating through a silver strike machine, storage and handling.
The token may have some toning due to age.
The El Cortez is one of three casinos in Las Vegas that currently have a silver strike machine on the floor.
"Blue Caps",
"Red Caps", and "Pink Caps" are considered "chaser strikes" and often times a limited edition. The casino puts only a limited number of these colored capsuled Silver Strikes in the machine at a time.
Life is Beautiful:
Life is Beautiful is a three day art, music, and cultural festival held in downtown Las Vegas, taking over 18 blocks of the city.  It began in 2013 as a way to help transform the downtown area, not only culturally but economically.
El Cortez Casino History:
Located at 600 East Fremont Street in Las Vegas, NV, The El Cortez has been in operation for 80 years.  It opened on November 7, 1941 and is one of the oldest casino-hotel properties in Las Vegas.  The theme is Spanish Colonial Revival. In 1945, the notorious Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Gus Greenbaum and Moe Sedway bought the property.  In 1946, they sold it back to one of the original owner J. Kell Houssels.  In 1963, Jackie Gaughan purchased the property.  Gaughan lived in the El Cortez's tower penthouse and was known to be on the casino floor daily.  In 2008, Gaughan sold the property to Kenny Epstein, a longtime friend and business partner.
Fun Fact #1
:  Jackie Gaughan lived in the hotel and played poker in the poker room until his death on March 12, 2014.
Fun Fact #2:
On February 22, the El Cortez was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fun Fact #3:
The location of the El Cortez was originally considered too far from downtown to be successful.
Fun Fact #4:
When Jackie purchased the El Cortez in 1963, he inherited the care of Mobster Irish Green, who did right by Bugsy Siegel and got put up in the El Cortez for life.
What is a Silver Strike?
A Silver Strike is a Limited Edition Gaming Token which is won from a special slot machine and is in a protective plastic holder. People from all over the world collect, buy, sell and trade these unique gaming tokens.  The first Silver Strikes were won from special slot machines in the Reno/Tahoe area of Nevada in 1992.  The tokens have been issued with redeemable values of , , , , , , , 0 and 0.  The most common denomination is .
Did you know that the older silver strikes have a higher silver content?  When the price of silver went up, the silver content went down - it was impossible to make a silver strike for .  Many silver strikes today are CLAD or heavy silver plated.
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