Millions of patrons have downed one at Jackson Hole’s Silver Dollar Bar inlaid with thousands of 1921 coins mostly arranged in an alternating heads and tails pattern. Since 1950, much history has passed over the 2,032 silver dollars embedded in the bar of the Wort Hotel’s signature tavern. Business deals, amorous solicitations and tall tales have sloshed over images of Lady Liberty and the American eagle engraved by George Morgan. The Silver Dollar Bar became such an emblem that the late owner Bill Baxter built two more — one in 2015 in the hotel’s dance-floor Showroom and the third this summer in its Silver Dollar Grill. “We like little quirks like that.”  Jim Waldrop Not all of the coins fit the heads-tails pattern, however. Furthermore, one of the silver dollars embedded in the Showroom is not a 1921 Morgan, hotel Manager Jim Waldrop said. Rather than shudder at the irregularities, Waldrop embraces them. “We like little quirks like that,” he said. Nevertheless, Waldrop helped ensure the traditional 74-year-old heads-tails pattern persisted when 1,632 silver dollars, all of them 1921 Morgans, were inlaid in the grill’s new bar this summer. He set the first coin. “They’re all alternating — heads, tails, heads, tails, heads, tails — Morgan 1921 silver dollars,” he said. Baxter set the 1,632nd coin, bringing the three-bar total to 5,056. The Silver Dollar Bar in Jackson’s Wort Hotel on a quiet holiday morning. (Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile) Waldrop wouldn’t say what each uncirculated 1921 silver dollar for the latest bar cost. They list for between 30 and 300 times face value, and more, online. Distinctive, yes, but the Silver Dollar Bar is not original. Jess and John Wort wanted their regal hotel to house more than a plain-Jane gin joint, so Jess visited Reno’s Harolds Club to check out the storied Covered Wagon Room and its bar, said to be made out of silver dollars. The Silver State’s pioneer-themed gambling nook “had a bourbon waterfall and over 2,000 silver dollars” according to the blogger Just A Car Guy. They were “set in its illuminated bar top” with a horseshoe curve and stools with Conestoga accents, according to another description. The Silver Dollar Bar in the Covered Wagon Room in Reno’s Harolds Club , since demolished, gave Jess Wort the idea for the Wort Hotel’s famous tavern built in 1950 in Jackson. (eBay screengrab) Harolds was torn down in 1999. But the Wort has blossomed, much of its color documented in Charlie Craighead’s book “Meet Me at the Wort.” Those who passed and received pours and concoctions across the Silver Dollar Bar include the likes of Steve Bartek, Wilma Taylor, Annie Band, Steve Stenger, Ed Long, Mike Randall, Leslie Kraft, Jackie White, Barbie Hartnett, Margene Jensen, Pam Carter, Margaret Midge Egan-Bard, Roseva, Bryan Davis, Tammy, Rick, John Dykes, Lisa Bradshaw, Mike May, Dave Shultz, Stacey Carter, Lydia, Art Hazen, Doris Thorkildsen, Steve Furch, Cousin Good-eye, Derrick Beard, Mary Lou Osman, Ruth Luton, Buddy Schulz, Little Bill Lowthian, Greg Winston, Willard Miner, Dail Barbour, Sandy Saunders, Rocker & Jilly Bean, Dawna Wilson, Barb Gams-Van Eeckhout, Jeannie Ivies and her sister, Connie Coons and Whitey, according to a social media call for names, perhaps never noticing anything out of place. The Wort Hotel in Jackson. (Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile) BEFORE YOU GO… If you learned something from this article, pay it forward and contribute to WyoFile. Our work is funded by readers like you who are committed to unbiased journalism that works for you, not for the algorithms. The post Heads up! appeared first on WyoFile .