Vintage Casino Chips
Cigar Aficionado|May - June 2022
It's been said that whoever invented gambling was smart.
By Michael Kaplan
Vintage Casino Chips

Unredeemed casino chips can make bank: a selection offered on spinettisgaming.com.

But the guy who invented chips was a genius. But gamblers who choose not to cash in their casino chips may be the smartest of all. A 1960s $5 Caesars Palace chip, showing a smiling Caesar, now goes for $400. Flying home from Vegas, with chip in pocket, might have been as lucky as the gambler got on that trip.

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