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ChipGuide - A Catalog of Casino Chips and Collectibles
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
CG156566 Obsolete Issued: 1970s
Added: 2016-01-26
Last Update: 2016-01-30 Color: White
Mold: H&C (SCV)
Inlay: R-PINK
Logo: Red Star Catalog#: N3671.wh
Contributed by: Don Lueders
CG074968 Obsolete Issued: 1970s
Added: 2012-05-31
Last Update: 2015-07-08 Color: Green
Mold: H&C (LCV)
Inlay: R-White
Logo: Black Star Catalog#: N3644.gn
Contributed by: Richard Jezeski
Contributors: Richard Jezeski, Don Lueders, David Sarles, Fred DeKeyser, Dennis Berry
CG134447 Obsolete Issued: 1970
Added: 2014-09-13
Last Update: 2017-10-09 Color: Lt-Brown
Mold: SCrown
Inlay: R-Lt Blue
Logo: Navy Star Catalog#: N6952.lbr
Contributed by: Fred DeKeyser
Contributors: Clint Spesert, Fred DeKeyser, Don Lueders, David Sarles
CG072540 Obsolete Issued: 1970s
Added: 2012-04-27
Last Update: 2016-01-22 Color: NAVY
Mold: H&C (SCV)
Inlay: R-PINK
Logo: Red Star Catalog#: N3667.nv
Contributed by: Terry Shaffer
Contributors: Fred DeKeyser, David Sarles, Don Lueders
CG144073 Obsolete Issued: 1970s
Added: 2015-05-27
Last Update: 2015-07-08 Color: Yellow
Mold: H&C (SCV)
Inlay: R-RED
Logo: White Star Catalog#: E0995.ye
Contributed by: Fred DeKeyser
CG314291 Obsolete Issued: 1970s
Added: 2024-03-16
Last Update: 2024-03-19 Color: Green
Mold: H&C (LCV)
Inlay: R-RED
Logo: Red Star Catalog#: N3673.gn
Contributed by: Fred DeKeyser
Contributors: Bill Lange, David Sarles, Fred DeKeyser
CG144070 Obsolete Issued: 1963
Added: 2015-05-27
Last Update: 2017-06-30 Color: Brown
Mold: LgKey
Inlay: R-Pink
Logo: Red Star Catalog#: N5906.br
Contributed by: Fred DeKeyser
Contributors: Fred DeKeyser, Don Lueders, Barry Sherwood
CG070550 Obsolete Issued: 1963
Added: 2012-04-05
Last Update: 2015-07-08 Color: Green
Mold: LgKey
Inlay: R-LT GREEN
Logo: Navy Star Catalog#: N5860
Contributed by: Gary Acquistapace
Contributors: Gary Acquistapace, Fred DeKeyser, Don Lueders
CG031525 Obsolete Issued: 1963
Added: 2011-02-14
Last Update: 2017-06-30 Color: Red
Mold: LgKey
Inlay: R-Lt Blue
Logo: Navy Star Catalog#: N5888.rd
Contributed by: Richard Jezeski
CG103919 Obsolete Issued: 1964
Added: 2017-06-30
Last Update: 2020-08-17 Color: Brown
Mold: H&C (CJ)
Inlay: R-White
Logo: Black Star Catalog#: E0986.br
Contributed by: Greg Ikemoto
CG103919 - Brown - Shown
CG103916 - Gray
CG103918 - Purple
CG103917 - Lt Blue CG103920 - Maroon
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CG103921 Obsolete Issued: 1964
Added: 2017-06-30
Last Update: 2017-06-30 Color: Brown
Mold: H&C (CJ)
Inlay: R-Lt Green
Logo: Green Star Catalog#: E0989.br
CG103921 - Brown - Shown
CG103922 - Blue
CG103923 - Green CG103929 - Pink
CG103930 - Red
CG103931 - White
CG103932 - Yellow
Table: Lt Green inlay
CG312898 Obsolete Added: 2024-02-08
Color: Navy
Inserts: 3 Black
Mold: Weave
Inlay: R-White
Logo: Black Star Catalog#: NotinTCR
Contributed by: Richard Siri