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Sixty-one million dollars in casino chips were pulverized into tiny pellets in Atlantic City.
The Sands Casino chips were demolished as a safety measure because the chips retain their value over a lifetime. They were left over after the casino closed in November.
Last week, Sands owner Pinnacle Entertainment began liquidating the property, selling off every fixture and stick of furniture ahead of an implosion this fall.
Chips bearing denominations from one dollar to five-thousand were some of the last things to go.
Pinnacle hired a company to bring in a 51-foot semi truck with a hammer-like mechanism to pound the chips into dust.
Some 97-hundred pounds of chip fragments are to be sent to a landfill.
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