Gambling Currency: Chips – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com History of Gambling in the U.S. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:34:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gambling-history.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-Kings-Castle-Chip-32x32.png Gambling Currency: Chips – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com 32 32 Quick Fact – Lingerie Caper https://gambling-history.com/quick-fact-lingerie-caper/ https://gambling-history.com/quick-fact-lingerie-caper/#respond Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:11:10 +0000 https://gambling-history.com/?p=747

Inside the Crystal Bay Club Casino at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 1960s

1966

A 34-year-old 21 dealer at a Crystal Bay Club Casino at Lake Tahoe slipped $100 worth of gambling chips into her bra each day for a week before getting caught.

Once busted, she accepted termination of employment there.

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1947

John Clark Bosworth, of Reno, 47, was sentenced to 10 days in the local jail for playing with fake $25 chips in a Las Vegas casino.

What do you think? Was this a light or heavy sentence?

Photo from freeimages.com, by John Nyberg

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Company’s West Coast headquarters in San Francisco, California

1913

During an era of reform in the United States, the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. tried to discourage gambling by raising the freight rate on poker chips transported from New York to the West Coast by 50 cents.

It bumped the cost from $1.75 to $2.25 per 100 pounds (from about $42 to $54 in today’s values).

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A guest of the Flamingo hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nevada accidentally took home a $5 ($50 today) gambling chip then deposited it into the Bank of Arizona.

The bank mailed to the Flamingo the chip along with a letter requesting the casino cash it, which it did.

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