![]() The casino operated in Las Vegas on Fremont Street from 1975 to 1980. The record price was set at the 2014 Casino Chip & Gaming Tokens Collectors Club (CC & GTCC) convention, which saw a $5 chip from The Golden Goose command $75,000. ![]() While it doesn’t happen every day, casino chips can achieve sums well in excess of their face value. Some vintage chips that bear the livery of defunct casinos or have eye-catching graphics (or both) bring hundreds of dollars each, with a few individual pieces selling for several thousand and the scarcest examples breaking the five-figure mark. The collecting and resale of casino chips is big business. The casinos themselves might be thoroughly transformed or long since bulldozed, but their chips might not be worthless. Sometimes, though, people take casino chips home as souvenirs or forget to cash them in. They are meant to be exchanged for cash under that roof, on the spot. NEW YORK - Casino chips have no inherent value outside of the gambling venues that issue them. Image courtesy of Potter & Potter Auctions and LiveAuctioneers. A $5 Faro casino chip from Las Vegas’ Hotel Fremont, drilled and notched by the casino to mark it as obsolete, brought $3,000 plus the buyer’s premium in January 2021 at Potter & Potter Auctions.
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