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1 Dollar Tropicana Casino Scrip
| Issuer | Tropicana, A Ramada Hotel & Casino |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | The Tropicana diamond-shaped logo vignette occupies the center, flanked left and right by the inscription FUN MONEY in decorative letterpress. A ribbon banner at top bears ONE DOLLAR, below which the TROPICANA name and subtitle A RAMADA HOTEL & CASINO appear twice. Corner medallions and foliate scroll borders frame the note, with numeral 1 repeated at all four corners. |
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| Reverse description | An aerial architectural vignette of the Tropicana resort complex fills the central oval border, rendered in halftone letterpress. The multi-story hotel tower and low-rise casino building with a visible TROPICANA fascia sign are shown in perspective. Numeral 1 appears in ornamental circular cartouches at each corner, set within a plain outer border. |
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Casino scrip of this type occupied a legal grey area for decades — technically not currency, but functioning as a medium of exchange within the casino floor and, in practice, often accepted at nearby businesses in Las Vegas. The Ramada branding places this issue during the period after Ramada Inc. acquired the Tropicana in 1979, a partnership that ended acrimoniously in 1989 following a New Jersey gaming licence investigation that found hidden ownership ties to organized crime figures.
Scrip from the Ramada-era Tropicana is more historically loaded than most casino paper.