Rare casino silver strike .999 fine

Just picked this up at a meltdown shop for $10. I knew it was a good one because it's the first $28 denomination strike I've ever seen. Checked eBay and one just sold for $99...
I cringed when the clerk said they use to melt all these down until someone advised them to stop doing so.... These come in Silver as $7 $10 $20 $28 $40 $200 & $300 denominations, With the $10 and $40 being the most common from what I've seen. So, does anyone else have any cool or rare silver strikes? If so, post away please, I love these things!!!

 

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I sold all of my $10 silver strikes from Slots-A-Fun in Las Vegas when silver went over $40. Until 2006, the $10 strikes contained 6/10ths oz. of .999 silver, but in 2006, it was reduced to one-half ounce.

I still have this photo of the S-A-F Wildlife Series......

Chris

 

Very very cool Chris, I've noticed some casinos bring more $ than others. Not sure if that's because the casino is no longer in business or if it's another reason. I heard there aren't many of these particular slot machines left, I've never seen one ( never been to Vegas ) But if/when I visit a casino that has a silver strike machine, I will go broke trying to win the $300 half pound strike!

 

Cool. I have a few that I'll post later. On my way to an auction right now

 

They are still at vegas casinos but usually only 1 or 2 per not rows of them and a few years ago they took the silver out of them so ones post 2011 or so have no silver but are redeemable for $10

 

No silver now? Yeesh that a rip-off, I would still play one probably....
GL @ the auction bub, spy a killer vam or variety no-one else notices!!!!
And yes, POST AWAY!!

 

What website has the mintages ???
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/999-silver-casino-gaming-tokens.261351/

 

I grew up in Vegas. I miss the Aladdin; it's now Planet Hollywood but they still have the rainy area inside the building that I loved as a kid.

 

I haven't been back to Vegas since 2007, so I'm not sure which casinos still have them. Since I went every year for the pool tournaments at the Riviera, I'd spend a lot of time across the street at Slots-A-Fun and the Stardust. Both casinos had the machines, but the Stardust is long gone. I had my best luck at S-A-F. They had two machines back-to-back and it was 75c per game. It only paid out silver strikes - from one to five - no cash. I spent about $80 and collected 77 of the $10 silver strikes.

Chris

 

Damn that would be cool Chris, you da man!

 

Silverstrikers.com has a catalogue system for these which is really useful and has good info but the mintages are only listed for some of the tokens. Probably because there were a bunch of different mints that struck these. So getting that type of info would require an insider I reckon

 

I sold most of mine when silver was at $35/oz and did rather well. Roughly 80 of them went out in one sale on Ebay and I was quite happy about it. Lots of collectible ones and top dollar.

I always try to pick them up when I can, but don't know of or track the rarity - and don't pay a premium for any of them. I have picked up a few lucky estate sale finds cheaply in the last couple years.

A $7 Harrah's Tahoe which appears to be a full 1ozt coin. Defunct casino now, so it's a bit more collectible.
A $10 Buffalo Bill's Medicine Crow (very common)
And my favorite - because Caesar's Tahoe is defunct - a $40 Caesar's labeled 24 Karat HGE (heavy gold electroplate) over .999 Fine Silver. The strike is phenomenal on the portrait. The airtite is cracked, but I haven't mucked with it, at least until I decide to get a new one to put it into. I know these get top dollar. I'm sure I'll get good value from the right collector someday.

 

Those are very cool Brett, that $7 strike intrigues me.... I wonder if that is an early one? $7 for an oz chip doesn't seem right, unless ofciurse it was struck during the infancy of these things

 

That seems like a rather odd set of denominations. What's that all about? I don't know anything about silver strikes.

 

I'm not exactly sure why it's such an odd mix, the $200 & $300 chips are a half pound of silver (I've never seen one)
$10 chip is roughly .5 oz, a $20 chip is .75 oz, a $28 chip is .65 oz, and a $40 chip is 1.25 or 1.5 - 1.7 oz depending on who minted it.... Doesn't make a whole lot of sense really. They do try to make each domination look different though, the $10 ones have a silver plug with a brass outer ring, $20 is a brass plug with a silver outer ring and the higher denom's are solid silver w 24k hge and even those are distinguished by size, weight, and patterns they use for each.the hardest part about these is, sometimes, there IS no marked denomination

 

I just wish that collecting casino chips was still as popular as it used to be. Many of them have taken a dive. Obsolete chips aren't worth as much as they used to be.

Chris

 

The mother-load!

 

Well, here's my modest collection of them. 6 are vintage with actual silver and a couple have some nice toning going on, a plus for me of coarse and 1 from the El Cortez (Bugzy Siegel design) won in 2013 which is not silver as they had changed to base metal by then

All are stored in the airtights they came in like the Cortez.

Any info in my vintage ones anyone may have would be helpful...

 

I like the silver strike machines still even without the silver because thry are 75c max bet and you have like an 80% chance of getting at least 1 with a $10 bill. Silver strike machines are fun and don't take all your money in 10 mins like most slots similar to say the keno slots. A few bucks can go a long way with em

 

You are correct, I never weighed it. I just did this morning, 26.5 grams in the airtite. I don't want to take it out - but it's not a full ounce.

I just assumed based on full size and no overplating or such.

So I'm guessing ~6/10 of an ounce like the others - or somewhere close.