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You know what I mean.

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No no no, not that. These.

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So when I say casino rack, I mean it as the totality of all chips anywhere in the casino. Chips are art. Most casinos have a couple beautiful chips with some dogs, and some have nothing but a giant collection of disc-shaped turds. But then there are those casino racks that speak to your soul. You see every chip and you want to take them all home with you. THAT is what I mean by "beautiful casino rack".

I intend this thread to showcase what people consider the most beautiful casino racks. Please contribute your own, but try to include pictures of all the chips. Individually if you can, but in trays and racks if other images are not available. Some commentary is helpful as well.

Most folks around here hold the ARIA chips above in high regard. The five is a little weak and uninspired, but everything else is spectacular. The five would be a fine chip in most casinos I imagine. If Nevada changed their rules and allowed chips onto the free market after being retired, you would see a piranha frenzy over these.

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Lac Courte Oreilles Casino has been rebranded, these chips are not live and appear on eBay every once in a while. Maybe it is just the scan, but the five and twenty-five appear extremely bright to me. It would be a shame if they destroyed these chips when they retired them. They are all fantastic, except the 50c chip of course.

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These are my favorite Gardena CA chips. There are variations of a few of them, so I picked my favorites. I would pay a lot for a micro set with at least a rack each of 5c through $1 chips. TRK sweetness here! The casino closed long ago, but I think all these chips survived. Somebody here has this set below that makes me just a little jealous.

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Moving on

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These Soaring Eagle chips (Mt Pleasant MI) were not on my radar until recently. I obtained the 50c and both $1 chips in a transaction, mostly for the 50c chip because I collect casino fractional chips with inlays. The chips are RHC with textured inlays, and they started speaking to me. I went to chipguide to look at the rest and was very surprised. The second five dollar chip looks like it's on fire. The casino is open, but these chips are now obsolete. It's Michigan, and I think the chips get destroyed. Pity, because I'd buy buckets of the lower denominations.

That's all for now. Grand Casino Gulfport is the only one that comes to mind that I would have maybe added. Maybe another day.
 
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Oh man saved me a trip in September. I was going to try and get to LCO to get those $2’s. Hopefully one of the vendors can get them. Curious what the new Sevenwinds chips will look like?
 
Forty4 said:
Oh man saved me a trip in September. I was going to try and get to LCO to get those $2’s. Hopefully one of the vendors can get them. Curious what the new Sevenwinds chips will look like?
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I tried to find images. Nothing on chipguide/themogh, thechipboard, the internet, or the sevenwinds website. They have indicated they still have table games, so they have to have chips of some kind. I went looking for the Lac Courte Casino website and got redirected to sevenwinds, which is how I knew they rebranded. I was hoping their new chips were as inspired as their old ones!
 
FDLmold said:
I tried to find images. Nothing on chipguide/themogh, thechipboard, the internet, or the sevenwinds website. They have indicated they still have table games, so they have to have chips of some kind. I went looking for the Lac Courte Casino website and got redirected to sevenwinds, which is how I knew they rebranded. I was hoping their new chips were as inspired as their old ones!
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If Paulson I’m almost willing to bet pattern 38 & 48 will be used as those seem to be the flavor of the year. Let’s hope for something different
 
I'm not a huge fan of the 20, but it's growing on me. When you only have 3 inlaid chips in your casino rack, and 2 are really good, I'd say that qualifies.
 
I've still got plenty of ammunition for this thread. It is difficult to find a GOOD casino rack of ceramics. I find most of them uninspired with washed out colors. I don't own any of these, but I suppose I may try to collect them someday. The pics are NSFW, so I will spoiler them for y'all.

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So here we have The Ore House ceramic chips from Reno. They took full advantage of Chipco offerings because they have an octagon AND a plaque in the lineup. The artwork on all six chips is unique among all casinos with one perspective of a scene on one side of the chip/plaque, then the 180° perspective of the same scene on the other. I shouldn't like them, but I do.
 
Beat me to it. I have the first five of those chips. Would be baller to have the rest. That 1k is sexy.
 
It's hard to imagine anything good came from Hurricane Katrina. Casino before:

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There is the long boat-type structure to the left, either in the water, on the water, or next to the water. The hotel is to the right on land. After:

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So...the hotel got trashed, and the boat-type structure ended up in two pieces and several hundred feet from the water. I have no clue where these beauties were when all this went down:

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But the casino never reopened, and the chips hit the open market. They had just the one rack of chips, and opened in 1993, so what you have here is fully leaded, textured inlay, shaped inlay, Paulson goodness. I think the weakest chip is the $25. The red spot isn't so bad, but the pea green spot is *barf*. The chips are in quantity, and they are out there. They are also expensive. Very expensive...
 
Lots to like about Lake Elsinore here. I picked my favorite for each denom, and only got stuck with one RHC chip. Hard to find a weak spot here, though if I was forced to choose, I think the $10 chip is the worst. Love the $25.
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The Dunes was the 10th resort to ever open on the Las Vegas Strip. They made it almost 40 years before becoming obsolete to the mega resorts. Toward the end, they designed and ordered their golf course chips, which did not get much use because the casino closed soon after. The design was a departure from their Arabian Nights theme of genies, djinns, swords, and damsels, which over the years had produced some spectacular chips of their own. I doubt there were very many of these golf course chips in public circulation, at least until Steve Wynn's workers who were building the Bellagio found a bunch of bags of them while digging in the desert. I remember reading somewhere that the NGC wanted the chips destroyed, but they were convinced not to by a guy who said he would turn them into keychains or embed them all in lucite or something, but then he didn't. At any rate, there are lots of these chips out there (some more than others), many in new or like new condition. I'm pretty sure the notched $500 chip was never a casino chip, but it should have been.
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The baccarat chips are oversized, with the $25k being extra oversized (48mm?). They look good in a set...
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FDLmold said:
I think the weakest chip is the $25. The red spot isn't so bad, but the pea green spot is *barf*.
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I have to respectfully disagree. The red is actually blaze orange and the green is more of a lime green. Together they both really pop and the scans don't do them justice.

Disclaimer: I own a set.
 
I'm having to stretch to find racks that can compete with ones that are already in this thread. Usually, when your phone number takes up significant real estate on your inlay, that should automatically disqualify your rack of chips from contention. But the colors and spots and shaped inlays on the Oceanside Card Club chips are too nice to ignore. Every chip has the same spot pattern, and it works here. There are playable sets of these chips out there. I'm not so fond of the $25 or $100, but I'm very jealous of the rest. I would be very happy with a cash set of the quarters through $20s, mill myself a nice simple lime green 5c chip, and keep the set forever.

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So I'm browsing chips the other day. I was checking out the chips from a casino that had a strangely high number of fractional chips. I noticed two quarters and five half dollars, with materials and molds all over the place. Then when I was checking out the whole rack, EVERY denomination was like that up to about $25. I present to you the San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino in Highland, CA.

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I picked my favorite chips only. The picture would be three times larger if I included every chip they ever had in each denomination. I have no idea which chips are live. The 50c THC chip is fantastic. I'm not a big RHC guy, but the RHC set from 25c-50c-$1-$2-$3-$5-$25 is really really good. I'm guessing there is a lot more contrast between the 25c and the $1 blue shades than what this picture represents.

Nice chips!
 
FDLmold said:
The Dunes was the 10th resort to ever open on the Las Vegas Strip. They made it almost 40 years before becoming obsolete to the mega resorts. Toward the end, they designed and ordered their golf course chips, which did not get much use because the casino closed soon after. The design was a departure from their Arabian Nights theme of genies, djinns, swords, and damsels, which over the years had produced some spectacular chips of their own. I doubt there were very many of these golf course chips in public circulation, at least until Steve Wynn's workers who were building the Bellagio found a bunch of bags of them while digging in the desert. I remember reading somewhere that the NGC wanted the chips destroyed, but they were convinced not to by a guy who said he would turn them into keychains or embed them all in lucite or something, but then he didn't. At any rate, there are lots of these chips out there (some more than others), many in new or like new condition. I'm pretty sure the notched $500 chip was never a casino chip, but it should have been.
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The baccarat chips are oversized, with the $25k being extra oversized (48mm?). They look good in a set...
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That guy was Mike Spinetti.
 

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