Hand of Faith

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 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, Hiller made out just fine.  He sold his golden nugget to the Golden Nugget for over a million dollars.)