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Posted 04/23/2022 6:45 pm
Flying Tiger
By all means get to Carson City and Virginia City. The old Carson City Mint is a great museum and has a wonderful display of CC coins. You can catch a quick train ride up to Virginia City where you can drop in to the Silver Queen Hotel and see the famous Silver Queen.
You will not miss the giant woman standing in the saloon. Her dress is made from 210 pounds of silver dollars -- and she's always visible.
The Silver Queen is 16-ft. tall and 8-ft. wide, a ceiling-touching painting of a lady in an evening gown decorated with 3,261 real silver dollars, some of them minted from silver dug from mines beneath Virginia City. Her belt is fashioned from 28 twenty-dollar gold pieces, and her choker and bracelets are made from silver quarters and dimes. Tourists pose at the base of the Silver Queen, and kids count the coins.
By all means get to Carson City and Virginia City. The old Carson City Mint is a great museum and has a wonderful display of CC coins. You can catch a quick train ride up to Virginia City where you can drop in to the Silver Queen Hotel and see the famous Silver Queen.
You will not miss the giant woman standing in the saloon. Her dress is made from 210 pounds of silver dollars -- and she's always visible.
The Silver Queen is 16-ft. tall and 8-ft. wide, a ceiling-touching painting of a lady in an evening gown decorated with 3,261 real silver dollars, some of them minted from silver dug from mines beneath Virginia City. Her belt is fashioned from 28 twenty-dollar gold pieces, and her choker and bracelets are made from silver quarters and dimes. Tourists pose at the base of the Silver Queen, and kids count the coins.
