The annual Casino Chip & Gaming Token Collectors Club (CCGTCC) recently held the largest casino collectible show of its kind at South Point Casino, drawing approximately 1,800 people.
The very successful show featured 55 different dealers from around the country with over 75 table spaces sold. Many of the dealers said it was their best show ever! Admission was $15 on opening day and free on Friday and Saturday.
If you’ve never seen a chip collector’s show, it’s quite an amazing sight! You can’t imagine how many chips are in that room or the total value of what all those chips might even be worth!
One of the highlights was a chip being sold for $75,000! The buyer remains anonymous but the chip was a $5 “Golden Goose” from Las Vegas.
Before my time but, apparently between 1975-1980, there was a Golden Goose Casino in downtown Las Vegas. What makes this rare chip so valuable is uncertain but the buyer must have known its value!
All sorts of other casino collectibles were on display for buyers, sellers and traders. Besides casino chips, there were poker chips, casino $1 coins, tokens, and casino logo items like matchbooks, dice, playing cards, swizzle sticks, slot club cards, hotel room keys and ashtrays.
You may want to look in your drawers and closets at home and see what you might have laying around for the next show. Just imagine if you found a Golden Goose chip!
A local chapter of CCGTCC is the Southern Nevada Casino Collectibles Club (SNCCC). This friendly group of collectors is interested primarily in casino chips and casino coins, past and present, but also buys, sells, auctions and trades all sorts of other casino memorabilia.
The group meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the El Cortez Casino in downtown Las Vegas in the Founder’s Room directly off the lobby on the second floor. The next meeting is scheduled for Aug. 12. For September only, the meeting will move to the Fiesta Room.
The regular meetings begin at 7 p.m., however members begin arriving as early as 6 to share stories and do a little swapping, trading and buying between each other. They also run a 50/50 raffle for cash and/or prizes that is quite a lot of fun.
The meetings are short and sweet but the fun begins with a guest speaker afterward. Usually a local gaming expert, casino exec, a collector or someone presenting some useful and helpful information is scheduled to speak for about 20 minutes and will take questions and answers following the presentation.
An auction of casino chips or related items usually follows the meeting and speakers as well as pulling the drawing winners.
A year’s membership to SNCCC is only $12 payable at the door. That’s a dollar a month for a good time and a great learning experience for new collectors as well as established collectors looking to broaden their contacts and collect some new chips for their collection. A new potential member can attend a first meeting as guest at no charge just to see what the group is all about! Plan to attend a meeting and join in on the fun!
Valet parking is available and the parking garage for the El Cortez is directly behind the casino with a security guard at the entrance. There is no charge for parking in the garage when attending a meeting.
SNCCC will host their own collector’s show on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3 and 4 at the El Cortez in the Fiesta Room, from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. both days. Admission is only $5 for one day or $7 for both days. The group’s website can be found at: http://snccc.weebly.com. They also publish a monthly newsletter. For more information about CCGTCC
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