"5 Free Nickels" chip - From the Royal Casino in Henderson or Las Vegas?

[Barry Sherwood R-9037 (admin)]

TCR has it listed under Henderson, but CG has it under Las Vegas.  Which is correct?  Image courtesy of The Chip Guide.
CG014305, TCR#N3979

[Jim Follis LM-3872-53]

Barry, I do see an image on my end.

[Barry Sherwood R-9037 (admin)]

Fixed.  I think it didn't show up because I pasted it inline instead of attaching it.

[Gpeterson4@sc.rr.com]

How do you post?

[Barry Sherwood R-9037 (admin)]

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[Bob Pardue CLM-0003-40]

I'm late to the party (replying 7 1/2 months after your post!  ) but I'll take a shot --

My vote is for Las Vegas, not Henderson. Here's my logic, though only conjecture:

Both Royal Casinos had slots (per Fuller's Index), but Royal Casino-Henderson was only open 1960-1964, and the "5 Free Nickels" plastic chip seems newer.

Royal Casino-Las Vegas was open 1971-1988, a more likely timeframe, IMO. Furthermore, Royal Casino LV was a small off-strip place at 99 Convention Center Drive. A small place that took up about half of the 1st floor public space as I recall (I was in it personally a few times.) Low roller place with slots and a few live games. Definitely nickel machines in there at that time period. I could see a cheap promotion, valued at 25c, to induce walk-ins to pump a few coins in one of their machines.

What clinches the LV location for me is there's a similar chip (H&C Hot stamped - purple) reading "Royal Casino - 5 Free Nickels" too. See pic below, from MOGH/ChipGuide. I can see them ordering these H&C's originally, for the 5-Nickels promotion, then when they ran out of them / lost them / etc., they figured that a reorder would cost more to make than the 25c inducement value. So they got a box of cheap plastic chips, had stickers made, and had someone paste them on in their spare time.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
(And... the plastic chip should "graduate" from Henderson to LV too.)

[Barry Sherwood R-9037 (admin)]

I like the analysis. Now we just need one side or the other to confirm and change.

Thanks!