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5 Dollars - Showboat Casino Scrip Atlantic City, New Jersey
| Issuer | Showboat Hotel, Casino & Bowling Center |
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| Size | 157 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | FIVE DOLLARS SHOWBOAT® HOTEL, CASINO & BOWLING CENTER ATLANTIC CITY FUN MONEY BET WITH YOUR HEAD, NOT OVER IT 5 |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries the Showboat registered trademark logotype with fan/shell device at centre, above the full establishment name and location. Denomination numerals appear at left and right, with the responsible gambling slogan along the lower border. |
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Casino scrip occupies a genuinely odd legal corner — issued for use within a single property, technically a private instrument rather than a negotiable note, and almost never designed with collectibility in mind. The Showboat's combination of casino and a 24-lane bowling alley under one roof made it an Atlantic City outlier from its 1987 opening; the bowling center was not an afterthought but a deliberate marketing hook aimed at a less affluent crowd than the boardwalk properties were chasing.
Scrip of this type was routinely pulled and replaced to prevent counterfeiting, meaning survival rates depend almost entirely on whether a piece left the building before redemption cycles caught up with it.