This chip (?) was in the Chip-Chat Auction #15, March 1999. Only Doug Saito could auction a plain, clay chip containing a rubber stamp for a bank deposit for the Traveler's Hotel in Mina, Nv and get someone to bid $92.00. You see, Doug read in Harvey Fuller's "Guide to Nevada Gaming Establishments", that the Traveler's Hotel had gaming (21, craps & roulette) from 1953-1955, with one of the owners, known as Scotty. Well now, one of the names on the deposit stamp was B. Scott. In fact, the true printing (rubber stamped) on the best of the 12 chips found by the consigner (the auctioned chip) reads:
....... Bank
Tonopah Branch
For Deposit Only
Traveler's Hotel
B. Scott, Yvonne S...
Mina, Nevada
246

Steve, you now see that your chip is badly off-centered, so it would be worth only a fraction of the $92 bid. On the other hand, your chip is so badly off-centered that it may be considered "an error" which may bring a much higher bid in one of Doug's auctions. Doug asks in Chip-Chat #15, "What kind of bank accepts chips as deposit slips?" He says. "It doesn't make 'cents.' No, it doesn't. It makes more sense to call this chip a true gaming chip, manufactured in the 1950's when there was no gaming commission, or any rules and regulations concerning what has to appear on a casino owner's chips."

So Steve, it appears that you got one of the twelve bank deposit chips, and yes, it is V3520. My only question is how Doug convinced me that this chip (?) should be entered in "The Chip Rack"? At least we lowered it one level to a (K).