Casino collectibles sell big on eBay - 2004-03-16
A rare casino chip, seen by collectors to be the hobby's Holy Grail, was purchased Sunday on eBay for a single-chip record price of $33,000.
The sale broke the previous single-chip record price of $15,100 paid three years ago, also on eBay, for a one-of-a-kind $5 chip from the Hacienda Las Vegas, which was wiped out to make way for the Mandalay Bay Casino.
“This is the Holy Grail of chips,” Len Cipkins, spokesman for the Nevada-based Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors Club Inc., remarked about the Sands chip.
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