Post Your .999 Silver Gaming Tokens

These came into use over just the last couple decades, and were mostly dispensed via special slot machines, hence the plastic case will occasionally be found to be cracked from when it fell into the metal tray. However, even when they remain intact, the plastic cases don't seem to afford as much protection against unsightly tarnishing as you might expect.

For this most common configuration of the genre, the center portion is ½ oz. of .999 silver (typically in a proof finish) while the collar is made of a yellow base metal, possibly gold washed or plated. Some dealers don't bother with these except to punch out the center discs and send them in as scrap silver; others are happy to sell the entire token at a small premium, but there are collectors of these who evidently value them at more than that, and have seriously delved into the technicalities of their manufacture and issue.

See: http://home.comcast.net/~sptokens/marv8.htm

There's also an older thread regarding these:

https://goccf.com/t/85381

The one pictured below I very recently picked up at just current melt - I thought it was more than typically pleasing from an aesthetic standpoint and I was intrigued that it was from an rather somewhat remote spot as well (Wendover, if you don't know, is way over on the Nevada-Utah state line).