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A member of Harrah's / Caesars (Generic)
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219 N Center Street
Reno, Nevada 89501 MAP
Type: Land Based
775-786-3232
Status: Closed
Open: 1946, Close: 03/2020
Link to Website
Closed in March 2020 for COVID-19 pandemic and announced on June 5, 2020 that it will not re-open.

PURGE CHIPS: (Steve Passalacqua) The $1 table chip color of the Harrah's Brass Core chip is sunshine yellow. 46 color variations of this chip were purchased by Steve Passalacqua CCA #044, LM #214 (3 Dark Green, 6 Black, 15 light Green, and 22 red). These off-color chips came from the Kolesters Tool and Die Co. family. They made Harrah's first Brass Core casino chips in the late 1960s and 1970s. These brass core slugs have the Kolesters Tool and Die Co. logo inside the casting in the shape of California holding the letters “KTD”. When a new denomination was needed for a color change they would purge the existing ABS plastic color from the current chip run by adding the new color on top of the existing color in the machine. The old color would be purged out of the machine with the new color by filling the $1 brass core slugs until the new color appeared ready for the next denomination color. I call the chips used to purge the old color from the machine Purge Chips. Each of the 46 Kolesters Tool and Die Co. Purge Chips has a hand-cut serial number label placed by me for identification. Not all off-color Brass Core chips are purge Chips.
TCR numbers are used by express permission of SSS Publishing
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CG123689 Obsolete
Added: 2014-03-09
Last Update: 2014-12-27
Color: Red
Mftr: None
Contributed by: Dennis Berry

Keno Free Drink
CG021707 Obsolete
Added: 2014-12-27
Color: Brass
Mftr: HH
Contributed by: Walter Dirzulaitis

Arcade Token, incuse obverse design,
CG046799 Obsolete
Added: 2014-12-27
Last Update: 2014-12-28
Color: Brass
Mftr: HH
Contributed by: Ross McCammon

Arcade Token
CG144079 Obsolete
Added: 2015-05-27
Color: Nickel
Mftr: None
Contributed by: John K. Kallman

Free Drink Token 32mm
CG144080 Obsolete
Added: 2015-05-27
Color: Green
Mftr: None
Contributed by: John K. Kallman

Free Drink Token - Green Scan thanks to Ross McCammon 32mm
CG144081 Obsolete
Added: 2015-05-27
Color: Nickel
Mftr: None
Contributed by: John K. Kallman

Free Drink Token
CG154918 Obsolete
Added: 2015-12-31
Last Update: 2020-11-18
Color: Nickel
Contributed by: John K. Kallman

Good Luck Token - 32mm
CG154919 Obsolete
Added: 2015-12-31
Last Update: 2020-11-18
Color: Nickel
Contributed by: Ross McCammon

Good Luck Token - 34mm
CG178574 Obsolete
Added: 2017-04-19
Last Update: 2017-04-21
Color: Nickel
Contributed by: Gary Acquistapace

Lucky Token
CG255837 Obsolete
Added: 2020-11-25
Color: Pink
Mftr: None
Contributed by: John K. Kallman

Keno Free Drink
CG070841 Obsolete
Denom: $2
Added: 2012-04-06
Last Update: 2017-04-26
Mftr: GDC
Contributed by: John K. Kallman
CG071101 Obsolete
Denom: $2
Added: 2012-04-08
Last Update: 2017-04-26
Mftr: GDC
Contributed by: John K. Kallman
CG071571 Obsolete
Denom: $2
Added: 2012-04-13
Last Update: 2017-04-26
Mftr: GDC
Contributed by: John K. Kallman
CG134327 Obsolete
Denom: $2
Issued: 1996
Added: 2014-09-10
Last Update: 2017-10-30
Color: Brass
Mftr: GDC
Logo: Eiffle Tower
Contributed by: Dennis Davoll

World's 7 Wonders
CG134328 Obsolete
Denom: $2
Issued: 1996
Added: 2014-09-10
Last Update: 2017-04-26
Color: Brass
Mftr: GDC
Logo: Parthenon
Contributed by: Dennis Davoll

World's 7 Wonders
CG134329 Obsolete
Denom: $2
Issued: 1996
Added: 2014-09-10
Last Update: 2017-04-26
Color: Brass
Mftr: GDC
Logo: Roman Coliseum
Contributed by: Dennis Davoll

World's 7 Wonders
CG134330 Obsolete
Denom: $2
Issued: 1996
Added: 2014-09-10
Last Update: 2017-04-26
Color: Brass
Mftr: GDC
Logo: Taj Mahal
Contributed by: Dennis Davoll

World's 7 Wonders
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CG036257
Added: 2017-01-20
Last Update: 2017-01-20
Color: Green
Contributed by: Bill Judge

Coin Bucket
CG178611
Added: 2017-04-19
Color: Orange
Contributed by: Bill Judge

Coin Bucket
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