SAHARA Las Vegas NICKEL Half-Roll 1950/60s VERY Rare VERY Collectible GOLDEN ERA

One "Half Roll" of Nickels. These half-rolls of coins were usually handed out to guests at the registration desk of many favorite Las Vegas resort casinos in the 1950's and 1960's. The wrappers of these Short Rolls were typically printed or stamped with the hotel logo, making them one of the oldest surviving examples of memorabilia from the glory days of Old Vegas. Short rolls typically contain half as many coins as a "full" roll, and they contain the coins that would have been expected to be in circulation at the time the roll was wrapped. Many rolls have coins that are special in some way, such as wheat pennies.

These coin rolls are so rare that it is hard to find stories about them on the internet! In order to preserve these coin rolls they have been kept in the original casino shrink wrap (if present, or shrink wrap from collectors in some cases) and have never been opened.

In almost all cases you can see the face of each coin on the ends of the roll, but nobody has ever seen what coins may be included in the middle of the roll. They are all guaranteed to be very old, as most of these rolls were wrapped in the 1940's, 1050's or 1960's. Please check the photos to see if we were able to take pictures of the end coins on each roll.

Photos are representative of the actual roll you will receive, but they are all very similar to the condition shown. But all rolls in the photos are definitely from the same era. This is the "cream of the crop" that remains from a collection spanning over two decades.

I just can't see them ALL torn open! I haven't seen any more of these available in many years, I feel like these half-rolls are about to become extinct forever. The price you see in this listing is based on the rarity of the rolls, the age & reputation of the corresponding resort, and how many of them I have left.

Long live the golden age of Old Las Vegas!