29 Jun
2019
29 Jun
'19
7:09 a.m.
> "Silver dollar" used to be a large coin.
(38.1mm) It was the standard for
> casinos. When it was discontinued (1935), the casinos started to mint
> their own chips/tokens as a replacement. There was a brief attempt to
> revive the silver dollar in 1971 with the "Eisenhower Dollar".
> It is quite rare that you will encounter one of the "large dollars".
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
This I had never heard of. Thanks.
Go to Las Vegas, and find one of the few casinos that still has coin clot
machines (Circus-Circus? El Cortez?) (where's the excitement in scanning a
credit card, and winning a piece of paper to take to the cashier's cage?),
and buy a dollar coin. It is the casino's imitation of a silver dollar.
Put it into a slot machine, and you will never see it again. Unless the
machine malfunctions and spits out one or more into a bowl that is
optimized for making loud noise.