Dozens and dozens of $5, $25 and $100 vintage casino chips were found this week poking out of the sand and spilling onto the parking lot of the former Travelodge Casino in Carson City, Nev. Construction workers broke through a concrete floor which proved true a long-time rumor about buried casino chips.
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Chip and token collectors have been around as long as casinos have, but it wasn’t until the 1980′s that collectors began talking with each other on a regular basis and dealers began to concentrate on casino material. Before the 1980′s, chips and tokens could be found outside of casinos only as oddities: a few chips or tokens mixed in with a coin dealer’s stock, or a few chips at an antiques shop or garage sale.
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