Atlantic City's newest novelty: Gold from a vending machine

Loosely resembling a gigantic gold bar, the machine acts like an ATM -- but it dispenses gold and silver coins and trinkets instead of cash. Inscribed on the side of the machine are the words "The gold ATM." It is located in Golden Nugget's atrium, just off the casino floor.

This is the first such machine on the East Coast and only the second one in North America, said Brian Kendrella, director of operations for Stack's Bowers Galleries, a precious metals dealer and operator of the machine.

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"It's neat. We sell so much gold that I'm shocked. It's just weird," Tilman Fertitta, the Houston billionaire who owns the Golden Nugget casinos, said of the public's fascination with the machine.