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Welcome to Trking.com! For over 80 years TR King & Company produced dice, gaming equipment and the most amazing casino and poker chips. In August 2006 they closed their doors and stopped production. This website is not affiliated with that great American company but is however a tribute site for the company and it's products. Find out more about the history of TR King here.

Frequently Asked Questions

These 14 gram King's Casino Poker Chips are built for the long haul. The inlays have been heat transferred and are not widely available. You will appreciate the detail on the perimeter of all 12 denominations of King's Casino, up to $10,000. Select your denominations and then add a chip case, poker buttons or playing cards to complete your set. 500 Kings Casino Poker Chip Set with Mahogany Case. The King's Casino Poker Chips are a 4 color clay chip that is 14 grams in weight. These chips have a nice solid heavy feel to them. There are 12 colors with denimation from 25 cents up to $10,000. The graphics on each chip feature the king of various suits from playing cards. Set Includes: 20.

Q. Who was T. R. King or what does it stand for?

500 Clay Kings Casino Poker Chips

This 750 chip set of El Rancho Vegas Casino chips is for: 25¢ – 200; $1 – 200; $5 – 150; $25 – 100; $100 – 100; These chips were made by TR King in 1985 on their Large Crown mold. The chips are reproductions using the same mold and dies as the original chips that were made back in the 1940’s. The chips are all in mint condition. The unique King's Casino inlay is not widely available. This chip is available in 12 denominations! First of all, these 39 mm diameter casino sized chips are 14 grams in weight. They are produced from a high grade clay composite material and an insert that gives them the weight and feel of a.

A. The TR stands for Teddy Roosevelt and the King part is for the crown style molds they used for their chips.

Q. What chip molds did they produce?

A. TR King is probably best known for their 'small crown' (aka scrown) and their large crown (lcrown) molds. In the early days they used the 'Square-Square-Rectangle' and the 'Chain' molds. They also made the 'GN' house mold for chip issues 6 through 12, excluding the 10th, for the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas.

Q. What year did TR King start?

A. It depends who you ask! The original trking.com website says they started business in 1922 but their chip boxes say 1924. There are also sources that claim 1923 was the first year and a few that say 1925 was when it all started.

Real Casino Poker Chips

You will find that clay chips stack better than composite poker chips, beacause they are less slippery. The chips with graphics have a label inlay on them. These label inlays are recessed into the face of the chip, unlike ceramic poker chips, which the graphics are part of the chip.

All clay poker chips have some percentage of composite materials in them. The composite materials give the chip strength. A 100% pure clay chip would be extremely brittle and easy to break. Even our casino grade poker chips which have a higher percentage of clay can be broken in half, if you try to break them.

Generally, the more expensive a clay chip costs, the higher the percentage of clay it is made with. It is more complex to manufacturer chips with a higher clay content.

Weight has nothing to do with quality. Our highest quality chips are the 10 gram chips. The weight of a chip is is purely personal preference. Our most popular chips are the heavier 14 gram clay chips.

All clay chips that weigh more than 11.5 grams have a metal insert in them to give them their weight. The larger the weight the heavier the chip.

All of our clay chips are either 39mm or 40mm in diameter. The thickness of most of the chips are the same too.