Of course, you know why I pick-up this Limited Edition Collector's Series Silver Striker round. It has a pirate ship design and an image of a pirate with a parrot!
If you're interested, check out my other Silver Striker Rouds HERE.
This one is from Treasure Bay Casino, Biloxi, Mississippi. I haven't been to Mississippi, have you?
These Limited Edition silver tokens are issued in many casinos throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Cruise Ships. The first of these tokens were won from slot machines in the Reno/Tahoe area of Nevada in 1992.1
So if you're around a casino, you may want to look for silver striker machines and try your luck at winning one. Or if you are like me, just buy them from eBay.
$10 strikes feature a .999 fine Silver center with a Brass outer ring. The Silver content is roughly 0.60 troy ounces. Around 2005, a thinner center insert started showing up, dropping the Silver content to about 0.50 ounces. In 2009, some $10 strikes were produced in CLAD instead of .999 Silver. 1
The classic image of a pirate with an eye patch, peg leg, and a parrot on their shoulder, is largely a product of 19th-century literature, most notably Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.
Back in the Golden Age of piracy (late 1600s to early 1700s), pirates didn’t look like the over‑the‑top characters we see in movies. They mostly just looked like rough, hard‑working sailors. The whole idea of eye patches and missing limbs comes from how dangerous life at sea was, not from some pirate dress code. And the parrots? Those were simply souvenirs from tropical trade routes. The sailors brought them home because they were fun, exotic companions.
At the end of the day, collecting these casino tokens is just plain fun. They’ve got real silver, they’ve got character, and some of the designs are surprisingly cool. It’s one of those hobbies where the more you dig in, the more interesting it gets.
1 https://silverstrikers.com/index.php/
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