Went to the casino

Poker tables


Here one that I picked up out west.it not for slot but if fit in with topic

 

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I agree when I ship silver in any kind of quantity I use the flat rate priority boxes.

edit to add: And when insuring for a decent amount I told the PO worker what was inside and he didn't say there was a problem.

 

Jello, it's called a "Silver Strike" in chip collecting lingo.

Chris

 

I was thinking that but was:foot-mouth: not sure.that what there called.
Thanks :thumb:
Chris

 

well its been a very long time since I had been to a casino and never have seen a slot machine that DIDINT take coins. What is this world coming to?

 

I was just in Virgina City (Jan 14th or so) and there was only two opererating casinos and the one that had the machines was the one with a display of a suicide poker table ... Virgina city is small town shouldn't be hard to find ...

I played $20 or so in the machine and actually won two Peace dollars both were 1922 I stopped while I was ahead ...


I too remeber the days of Cal Neva those were fun times especially back when the machine operated on quaters and not halfs when it made a breif return but sadly the machine is gone for good and likely will never return with the price of silver these days

 

That's the Silver Queen with the suicide table in the back of the room. The portrait on the wall of the dancehall girl is embedded with 3,261 Morgan dollars and her belt is made of Double Eagles.

Chris

 

I would love to stand there all day grabbing those big silver dollars out of the hopper and watching my hands turn black as long as they were the coins I had won. I have a lot of silver coins but I think I can find room for a few more .

 

Some casinos still use half dollars for their blackjack payouts. It is probably cheaper for them than buying 50 cent chips. My guess is that those coins probably stay in house for quite a while, as the casinos probably "re-cycle" them between the cages and blackjack tables.

They have probably been picked over pretty good, though you may find a 40% Kennedy or two. The odds of finding silver are probably still better than coming out ahead from gambling though...!

 

Actually the casinos would make more money by using 50 cent tokens rather than half dollars. The tokens would cost less than 50 cents apiece to have made, and many of them would go home as souvenirs and never be redeemed. Every one that goes home with a tourist is a 20 cent token given out as a 50 cent win.

 

Yep, it's hard to find slot machines that pay out in coin these days, but they're still out there if you know where to look. One of our local casinos until a few years ago had a really nice slot museum with old machines dating back to the 1800's. The best thing was you could actually play them and they were spiked with old coins along with moderns. I don't know how many buffalo nickels and indian head cents I won out of those just messing around. Some of the machines are still there, but they reside behind glass these days.
Guy

 

In the 90's, the Aussies designed a new machine that was based on one cent bets. No one here in the US ever thought that it would be as successful as it was. When it finally made its way into casinos in Nevada, marketing executives at many of the casinos and slot machine companies like IGT in Reno, NV realized that they were entering a new era of slot machine gaming that would attract many new customers much like the States Quarters did for coin collecting. They also realized that they would have to devise a new method for payouts on the new machines. They didn't relish the idea of paying out coins on 9c bets.

The old days of the mechanical slots paying out half dollars, quarters, nickels and dimes would fade into history. Instead of staring at bars and cherries spinning around in boring repetition, the new machines offered themes like Wheel of Fortune, M*A*S*H, The Beverly Hillbillies, Monopoly and many, many more. The possibilities are endless, and the graphics and sound effects are simply outstanding. The new multi-line video slots which allow players to bet anywhere from 9c to as much as $10 or more per game became the impetus for the Ticket in/Ticket out technology.

Chris

 

Any idea what the silver value is on these? Are they worth more to collectors?

 

At 30mm, it's just a hair smaller in diameter than the half dollar, but it is 3mm thick as opposed to 2.18mm for the half dollar. My rough estimate is that it contains about .48844oz. of .999 Fine Silver worth $15.63 melt.

There are many collectors of these in the Casino Chip & Gaming Token Collectors Club (CC&GTCC). Some of the Nevada Wildlife Series I have from Slots-A-Fun in Vegas routinely sell for $18-$30. I also have a few from the former Stardust, and the last one I saw on eBay sold for $45.

Chris

 

I stand corrected. I was sure that I saw it written on them " not to be used for coins or currency "

 

Thanks Chris. I see now. I thought the whole token was silver with a plated edge. Looks like the collector value is greater. This thread reminds me of years ago. I can still here the ringing in my ears from the slot action. It seems like they have also cut down on some of the loud crazy sounds the machines make. All good news to me but I miss finding silver in the half dollar machines.

 

As someone who actually does this, I don't know if I can agree with your logic. If there is a 50 cent gaming chip available, I would be more inclined to take that as a souvenir than the $1 chip I take now. Your theory is predicated on the assumption that enough new souvenir takers at 20 cents per person would overcome the number that currently take souvenirs which would represent a loss of 50 cents per person.

BTW, my favorite gaming chips are the $2 chips used by many of the Las Vegas poker rooms that spread an $8-$16 limit holdem game. I have Bellagio, Venetian, & Wynn.