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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
CG152177 Obsolete Denom: $5
Type: Table Chips
Issued: 1970s
Added: 2015-10-25
Last Update: 2016-08-11 Color: Purple
Inserts: 8 White / 4 Green
Mold: H&C (SCV)
Inlay: Hex Catalog#: N1147
Contributed by: Don Lueders
CG168263 Obsolete Denom: $5
Type: Table Chips
Issued: 1970s
Added: 2016-08-11
Color: Purple
Inserts: 8 White / 4 Green
Mold: H&C (SCV)
Inlay: Hex Catalog#: N1147
Contributed by: Don Lueders
Updated by: David Sarles
Drilled
CG055409 Obsolete Denom: $5
Type: Table Chips
Issued: 1996
Added: 2011-11-26
Last Update: 2018-01-24 Color: Red
Inserts: 4 Split-Ye
Mold: 4X2Rectl
Inlay: White
Logo: Flying Carpet Catalog#: N8535
Contributed by: A. J. Giametta
CG065005 Obsolete Denom: $5
Type: Table Chips
Issued: 2004
Added: 2012-02-26
Last Update: 2019-09-10 Color: Red
Inserts: 8 White
Mold: Dome (Denom)
Inlay: OR-WHITE Catalog#: E4553
Contributed by: Justin Kelley
CG312899 Obsolete Denom: $25
Type: Table Chips
Added: 2024-02-08
Last Update: 2024-02-08 Color: Navy
Inserts: 3 Black
Mold: Weave
Inlay: OR-White Catalog#: Not in TCR
Contributed by: Richard Siri
Prototype?
CG149719 Obsolete Denom: $25
Type: Table Chips
Issued: 1996
Added: 2015-09-03
Last Update: 2019-09-15 Color: Green
Inserts: 4 White
Mold: 4X2Rectl
Inlay: OR-White
Logo: Arch & Hotel Catalog#: N8536
Contributed by: Sherry and Johnny Mac
CG150358 Obsolete Denom: $25
Type: Table Chips
Issued: 1996
Added: 2015-09-19
Last Update: 2019-09-15 Color: Green
Inserts: 4 White
Mold: 4X2Rectl
Inlay: OR-White
Logo: 7 Stars Catalog#: N8537
Contributed by: Don Lueders
USA map with faces
CG150356 Obsolete Denom: $25
Type: Table Chips
Issued: 2004
Added: 2015-09-19
Last Update: 2019-09-15 Color: Green
Inserts: 4 Aqua / 4 Split White
Mold: 4Triangle (Denom)
Inlay: OR-White
Logo: 7 Stars/bl crcl Catalog#: E3252
Contributed by: Don Lueders
CG259317 Obsolete Denom: $25
Type: Table Chips
Added: 2021-02-05
Last Update: 2021-02-28 Color: Red
Mold: Arodie
Inlay: OR-White
Logo: Harrah's Club Catalog#: Not in TCR
Contributed by: David Sarles
Notched
CG162399 Obsolete Denom: $100
Type: Table Chips
Issued: 1946
Added: 2016-05-04
Last Update: 2020-08-05 Color: Cream
Inserts: 2 Red (painted)
Mold: SmKey
Inlay: HS-Gold Catalog#: V6850.C
Contributed by: David Sarles
CG106267 Obsolete Denom: $100
Type: Table Chips
Issued: 1996
Added: 2013-06-05
Last Update: 2019-09-14 Color: Black
Inserts: 8 sxs Gray
Mold: Plain
Mftr: BJ
Inlay: OR-White
Logo: Flying Carpet Catalog#: V2717
Contributed by: Bill Lange
Contributors: Fred DeKeyser, Don Lueders, Barry Sherwood
CG070550 Obsolete Type: Roulette Chips
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 Type: Roulette Chips
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 Type: Roulette Chips
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
Image Needed
CG103921 Obsolete Type: Roulette Chips
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 Type: Roulette Chips
Added: 2024-02-08
Color: Navy
Inserts: 3 Black
Mold: Weave
Inlay: R-White
Logo: Black Star Catalog#: NotinTCR
Contributed by: Richard Siri