![]() The piece fetched the highest price of some 60 chips at Heritage’s first sale of casino chips.Īntique Trader magazine noted in a preview of the sale, “This ‘hourglass’ chip features one of the best-known vintage Vegas logos it was used in advertising and promotion throughout the 1950s and was a very appropriate emblem back when Vegas was a Western-themed town.” In 2010, a Very Slightly Used (chip collectors have their own grading system) chip sold for $26,290 at auction. Heritage Auctions reports that casinos often made key chains for tourists out of withdrawn chips. In the center of both sides was a white disk showing the Casino’s trademark cowgirl leaning on an hourglass, four stars, two diamonds, the words THE SANDS / LAS VEGAS NEVADA and the denomination.Ĭollectors know of three undamaged pieces and one that was holed, apparently by the casino. ![]() It was blue with three mustard-colored inserts at the edges. One of the rarer Sands chips is a $5 ninth-issue piece that was used in the late 1950s. The most expensive chip, a $100 Sands token, fetched $145,000 several years ago. Sands chips, because of their history, coolness and rarity, top the price guides. ![]() ![]() Casino chip collecting is one of the hottest spots in exonumia, with prize disks fetching outsize prices. ![]()
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