Great searching in Reno!!.......................

[Paul in WA]

Just got home from a spur of the moment trip down to Reno. I am not really a gambler, but do play an occasional slot machine. The first thing I notice is that most have gone to those stupid "Paper" slots. To me, the whole "Coin" thing is half the fun. It only took a few minuets to find a real slot machine, and I buy a few rolls of nickles to use in it. after a few pulls of the one arm bandit, I decide that this just isn't the machine for me. I hit the cash out button, and the coins start dropping...............wait...............what was that darker looking coin....................there goes another..............my heart starts beating............i dig through the tray frantically...........BUFFALOS!!!!!!! One was a no date, but the other was a 1920-s. So, now I have decided what I am going to do in Reno.......roll search!! It was great!! I would put a $20 bill in the machine, make a few plays (I did hit a $60 pay out on one!!) then hit the cash out button to get my nickles, do a quick search, and cash them in at the counter, and move on to the next casino.I just kept going back & forth from casino to casino. I did this almost the entire time I was there. I found so many war nickles it was just ridiculous, also got more dateless buffalo's. I also kept anything before 1960 at the start, but was just getting so many, that I limited it to anything before 1950. I also did pennies, and got a fair amount of wheaties (no indians ) But did get 4 rolls of BU 1960-D Small date Lincolns!!! They look like the original wrappers too. Halves were really hard to find, but I did manage to get a few 40% Kennedy's. I will get some pics posted in the next few days.

Paul

PS
It seems like I went through a million dollars in Nickles! My hands were black!

 

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[Immy]

Outstanding Paul! Isn't casino searching great? You had much better luck than I average, having just found my first buffalo of the year last week. Congrats on your finds. Can't wait for the pics.

 

[buscadero]

Immy & Paul: Don't you wish you were in Vegas in the early 60's when they had real Silver $ in the Casinos?


Joe

 

[battlecat]

wow!! great job!!
hmmm only takes me two hours to get to AC....have to work at two... 4 hours drive time that gives me about 7 hours to search.. poop I still need to sleep

 

[Immy]

Immy & Paul: Don't you wish you were in Vegas in the early 60's when they had real Silver $ in the Casinos?


Joe

No doubt! I think of that all the time. I have a friend who's lived in Vegas for decades. He told me a story that back in the early 70s he was walking out of a coffee shop in a casino and decided to put a couple of bucks in a dollar machine. He hit a $500 jackpot and cashed out...all Morgans and Peace dollars!!! He was in the jewelry business so he knew his coins. He brought them home and kept them in a sack in his closet for years. One day he stubbed his toe on the bag and got so pissed about it that he went the next day and cashed 'em in at the casino for face value! This was before the silver boom of '79-'80 and he really kicked himself for not holding on to them longer.

Whenever I see an old film that takes place in Vegas (the original Ocean's 11, the Bond movie Diamonds are Forever) I keep thinking of the tons of silver coins filling those slots. *Sigh!*

 

[Cannonman17]

A friend of mine not long ago went to the local casino and got a standing liberty quarter in the pay out! Dateless but cool I thought. Also had a friend who worked as a teller... this will make you cry. She said people turned in all kinds of old coins, obviously from coin collections, to play with! She seen an older lady ask if she could turn these in for coins she could play with, know what they were? Gold. No lie. She had to get her boss.. when the boss seen them he accepted them and probably kept them for himself. She didn't recall exactly what coins they were because she's not a collector but said it was around fifty dollars face value. Unreal... talk about being desperate and throwing away your money. I would have liked to have been behind her in line! Hey, I'll give you double the face value for those!!!!!!

 

[Pennyworth]

Wow, I'm happy to hear that some casinos still have machines that pay out in coins and that you did so well with them! Congratulations! I can't wait to see the photos,and the final count of Buffalo and war nickles.

I plan on do the same thing on my vacation next week in one or two casinos. I'm not sure if they still have machines that pay out in coins,but if they do I'll give it a try. I'm also going to try going to some banks and asking to purchase halves. I'm also getting my friend interested in it and I know by the time I leave she will be hooked. lol

 

[Paul in WA]

It seems like they all still have a few, you just have to look, or ask where they are. The automated coin exchange machine makes it that much easier, just dump in your coins, and out pop's paper bills for you to stick back into the machine. I didn't really keep track, but I think I am realistic when I say I did atleast $200 per hour in nickles. A lot of them will be beat to death from being in & out of the slots so much. The Buffalo's are easy to spot, and the war nickles are darker than the rest, so they are easy to spot as well.

Paul

 

[AFModell]

Sweet! Ok, now. Ya gotta tell us the totals. Its important. It keeps me going!

 

[Postalrevnant]

Very good finds. And just leaving a casino with money is more than most do.

Postalrevnant