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Valued Member
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You may find one like this? Image Insert: |
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Valued Member
United States
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That's a pretty neat token do most casinos in Las Vegas use these? Might be a nice little collection.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I live in the Shreveport area and we have casinos. Most have them have switched to electronic cards and are almost or completely coinless. There is one casino here that still uses coins and yes they have halves. I've gotten some, but they are typically in bad shape from use in the machines and are dry of silver (probably because the machines don't accept silver). The nice things, though is you could go through them and dump them back into the casino if you want.
Probably in Vegas, there almost has to be at least one casino that has or uses halves. Call around and ask and then go to that casino when you get to Vegas.
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I'm heading to Vegas next week to bet on basketball and play blackjack. As previously stated, you will be hard pressed to find and slot machines that still accept coins. However, halves are still used at blackjack tables. Hitting a "blackjack" pays 3:2, so if you can find a $5 table, they probably have halves to payoff blackjacks on minimum bets. If you bet $5 the payout would be $7.5.
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I'm not a gambler; I have only been to two casinos in my life. Both places used electronic debit cards on the slot machines, no coins accepted. I have never played the tables, but I watched people play since my visit was more of a social experiment. With that experience and watching movies or television, I thought the tables always used chips, not coins or cash? I guess a half-dollar chip would be odd?
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Rest in Peace
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I see half dollars all the time, with their reeding worn completely off. That would make you think that they are being used in slot machines.
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I was in Vegas last month and the only place I saw Halves was at the Pai Gow Poker tables. Slot machines are all issueing slips of paper - they even have some cheap sounding noise to mimick dispensing coins when you win.
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I was in Vegas this week. The casino I went to had four machines that accepted halves, but unfortunately they issued paper. A cashier told me they sort througth the halves for silver. So Vegas doesn't seem to be the place to find silver. Maybe someone else has had a different experience?
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I was in Vegas last Oct on business and all the places I went no longer use coin. It was a bummer
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Thanks for all your help and advice on this
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I am going to be in Las Vegas in a few weeks. I am wondering if there are any casinos that use half dollars any longer. I know almost all have switched to tokens or paper slips. I have heard that smaller and older places still use them. Does anyone know of an casinos using halves? 
Posted 03/12/2008 10:38 pm
