Originally Posted by leroix

Not worth the hassle at all. All the major casinos on the strip only take bills in the slots and none of the coin slots I found anywhere in the city took dollar coins. [There is one casino downtown that only has coin machines, but they do not take the dollar coins] At one point, someone in this thread hinted that one coin counting machine in one casino downtown would take the dollar coins. I searched high and low, but couldn't find it!

I went to a poker room and tried to buy in with $100 in coins and the boss looked at me like an alien and asked lots of questions and finally said, "we don't take those here, go check with the main cage." So I walk over to the main cage, the teller doesn't know what to do, but the head cashier is like "of course, give the man bills." Any more than $100 and I think there would have been lots more questions.

Casinos in Vegas are hyper-aware of odd behavior. Bringing in dollar coins is going to get you noticed, and not in a good way.

On the plus side, there are 7 Wells Fargo branches within a few miles of the strip, and every one of them was happy to take the dollar coins I had stocked up on to unload in the casinos.