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[Alboogie]

Hello everyone,

My name is Alex and I am here to find more information about $5 and $25 chips from the old Marina Casino in Las Vegas. These chips were issued in 1980.

I also have a vintage set of VFW chips ($1, $5, $25, and $100). Both sets are from my Grandfather’s estate. Any additional help and information as to the value of these chips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[EastCoastCali]

Welcome, nice find! I’m not good with values quite yet as I’m fairly new aswell but these are very cool, love the maroon chip and the dark blue in the first picture. I’d be interested in some of these if ever sold!

 

[Mushmanchuman]

Wow man very cool chips! The Paulson ones are super cool even if drilled.

And I LOVE the VFW chips on the Horse Head Right mold. Are they all HHR for the VFW’s?

What’s the count on VFW set? Those might go for a $1/ chip depending on the stamp condition.

Very cool chips Alex!

 

[Mushmanchuman]

@Alboogie do you have a playable set of the Marina Casino’s or just a handful of chips?

 

[Sway]

Welcome!

 

[Fran]

Welcome Alex !

 

[Just1Better]

Hello and welcome!

 

[allforcharity]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Kam]

Welcome!

 

[Relik]

Hello and welcome to the community!

 

[Alboogie]

What a great welcome pokerchip forum family!

Here’s what I’ve found thus far. Found these in multiple briefcases in the attic of his house. They aren’t the cleanest but there are soooooo many of them.

Pics..

@Alboogie do you have a playable set of the Marina Casino’s or just a handful of chips?

About 540 of the $5 chips and 220 of the $25 chips. They aren’t very clean. Do you know how I should clean them up?

Wow man very cool chips! The Paulson ones are super cool even if drilled.

And I LOVE the VFW chips on the Horse Head Right mold. Are they all HHR for the VFW’s?

What’s the count on VFW set? Those might go for a $1/ chip depending on the stamp condition.

Very cool chips Alex!

I haven’t counted the vfw chips and don’t know what HHR means (sorry) but there are a lot of em. I posted a pic below. I’ve got to figure out something to do with them and figure out how to clean them. Looks like all the stamps (gold leveling) are intact.

 

[Tonysquander]

HHR means horse head right. If means the horse heads on the outer ring of those chips face right. There’s also a horse head left mold.

Welcome to PCF.

You have to be a bit careful cleaning the HHR chips and hot stamp chips in general. Use the search function to search for chip cleaning. But realize also that the HHR chips are of a different clay composition than Paulsons so what works on Paulson can eat up the HHRs.

The HHRs are probably made by ASM or CPC.

 

[EastCoastCali]

Holy shit, nice score! Don’t clean them, let the buyers clean them so they can make sure they take care of the stamps, in my experience they prefer that! I’m definitely interested as a buyer for some of those maroon $5’s, maybe more if you choose to sell!

 

[Tommy]

Please avoid buying and selling type posts outside of the designated areas. Use DMs.

 

[EastCoastCali]

Please avoid buying and selling type posts outside of the designated areas. Use DMs.

My bad, will do.

 

[KHarp1]

Welcome!

 

[Alboogie]

Please avoid buying and selling type posts outside of the designated areas. Use DMs.

Thank you, will do.

 

[Mushmanchuman]

They aren’t very clean. Do you know how I should clean them up?

If you feel so inclined to clean these you could do some warm water and dawn dish soap. Go over each chip with a soft toothbrush. Use a dental pick to get the gunk out of the small crack. Let them dry on a towel. Then go back over them, chip by chip, and put mineral oil on them. They will look a shit ton better. That is only if you plan on keeping them and putting them in play. Really depends on your plan with the chips. This could be all a huge waste of time depending.

If you plan to keep them, as a keepsake to honor your Grandpas memory, then no real need to clean them. They will just be in their cases and opened and looked at. The dirt and gunk will add character to the story of his chips.

Also, if you plan on selling then cleaning them won't add much value to the sale. You'd basically be doing a service for free. Like the other guys said, let the buyer do the cleaning. A lot of us really enjoy it!

 

[Alboogie]

If you feel so inclined to clean these you could do some warm water and dawn dish soap. Go over each chip with a soft toothbrush. Use a dental pick to get the gunk out of the small crack. Let them dry on a towel. Then go back over them, chip by chip, and put mineral oil on them. They will look a shit ton better. That is only if you plan on keeping them and putting them in play. Really depends on your plan with the chips. This could be all a huge waste of time depending.

If you plan to keep them, as a keepsake to honor your Grandpas memory, then no real need to clean them. They will just be in their cases and opened and looked at. The dirt and gunk will add character to the story of his chips.

Also, if you plan on selling then cleaning them won't add much value to the sale. You'd basically be doing a service for free. Like the other guys said, let the buyer do the cleaning. A lot of us really enjoy it!

Thank you for the advice on cleaning and care. For now my brother and I are trying to learn as much as we can about the history of the chips and their relative value. Haven’t decided what to sell and what to keep as of yet but there are so many of them. I know I want to keep a set to play with with friends for poker games but def don’t need that many

 

[aurumity]

That VFW chip is beautiful. Welcome to the forum!

 

[jxfan]

Nice chips! And welcome to PCF!

 

[LeLe]

The HHR Hotstamped are likely customed set that is order from ASM (later renamed as CPC) which u can still can order add-on from CPC if you want too.

For value-wise, they don’t fare a high value (like a Casino chip will command) and they look quite used from the pictures, one good thing about that set is in a playable breakdown so that will attract more potential buyer.

You probably do good if you can fare $1/chip for the set as a brand new Level 1 HHR no inlay is currently on priced at $1.65

As for the Casino chip, value generally is going to be low with that punched hole in the chips. Actual value is hard to measure as most (if not all) potential buyers don’t want chips with holes

 

[Winslow2918]

Hello and welcome to PCF! Beautiful chips!

 

[mdt11]

Welcome! Very cool chips, thanks for sharing!