"Silver dollar" used to be a large coin. (38.1mm) It was the standard for casinos. When it was discontinued (1935), the casinos started to mint their own chips/tokens as a replacement. There was a brief attempt to revive the silver dollar in 1971 with the "Eisenhower Dollar". It is quite rare that you will encounter one of the "large dollars".
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
This I had never heard of. Thanks.
Go to Las Vegas, and find one of the few casinos that still has coin clot machines (Circus-Circus? El Cortez?) (where's the excitement in scanning a credit card, and winning a piece of paper to take to the cashier's cage?), and buy a dollar coin. It is the casino's imitation of a silver dollar. Put it into a slot machine, and you will never see it again. Unless the machine malfunctions and spits out one or more into a bowl that is optimized for making loud noise.
