The LaVere Redfield (1897-1974) hoard story is very well known by coin collectors. Redfield worked his up from a a worker on a Idaho potato farm to millionaire during the great depression. By 1935 he owned 51,000 acres of land in and around Reno. The story has Redfield, wearing torn up jeans and flannel shirt with unkempt hair and full beard, making trips to Reno banks and buying $1000 bags of silver dollars. He had a false wall built into the basement of his house and would feed the space inside the makeshift vault via a coal shaft. Shortly after Redfield passed in 1974, his estate was audited and his hoard of 400,000 silver dollars weighing over 11 ton was disclosed. The hoard sold for $7.3 million dollars.
But that is just part of the story!
Redfield frequented the Nevada Club to play high stakes Roulette, so much so that the casino had two chips made to be used only by him. (TCR# N-5275 & N-5279) There is much more to the LaVere Redfield chip story. Please share your knowledge of this great historic chip story.