Hi All,

I followed a link from an ebay action to the website below. We have all known that the weights varied a bit on the center inserts, but this was new to me that the centers marked .999 were in fact not .999. In the Hard Rock case, it's okay because the strike is not stamped. In the case of the Gold Coast which was stamped .999, the FTC would not be at all impressed. So, has anybody else ever had a strike assayed or had refining done that came off a little? I thought this was interesting.

Paul

The web link is: http://home.comcast.net/~sptokens/marv9.htm

Of the Nevada tokens I have seen so far only the Hard Rock $10 tokens have "NO" silver inscription.

So to help answer our questions about silver content an assay was done by Casino Chips and Gaming Token Collectors Club member Lauren Guida's father who is also a CompuServe subscriber and he posted the results in the CompuServe Files Library for us to view. Here are his results as he has posted them.

Two $10.00 tokens were selected one from the Hard Rock and one from the Gold Coast Las Vegas. We also assayed a $40.00 silver premium token from Trop World Atlantic City. The tokens we used can be identified as:

HRLV-1 (Marv's Numbers) GCLV-2 (Marv's Numbers) and Trop World Steel Pier $40.00.

As you may or may not know the construction of the $40.00 tokens is a one piece stamping in .999Fine Silver and 24 Karat HGE (Heavy Gold Electroplate), while the $10.00 tokens are a twopiece stamping , the center .999 Fine Silver Token and the outer ring.

The outer ring of HRLV-1 weighed 12.25 DWT(pennyweights) (1/20 of a troy oz) and contained no precious metal.

The outer ring of GCLV-2 weighed 11.85 DWT(pennyweights) (1/20 of a troy oz) and contained no precious metal.

HRLV-1 Center weighed 11.98 DWT and contained 11.83 DWT .999 Silver. Actually the center was .9874 Fine Silver.

GCLV-2 Center weighed 11.63 DWT and contained 11.27 DWT .999 Silver. Actually the center was .9690 Fine Silver.

The $40.00 Trop weighed 34.60 DWT and contained 34.08 DWT .999 Silver. Actually the center was .9850 Fine Silver.

Additionally the $40.00 Trop contained .0102 DWT .9999 Fine Gold.