The real. The Casino Coupe is almost the same thing as the , just with P90's and a fully hollow body instead of humbuckers/semi-hollow. . This is mostly due to their useful size. Casino Coupe is a hollow body guitar that comes with P90s. ES is a semi hollow guitar that comes with either humbuckers of P90s (I prefer. The Coupe is very much louder acoustically, while the ES's sound is closer. I've narrowed it down to two guitars - The Epiphone ES and Casino Coupe. The ES Pro with humbucking type Alnico coil tapped pickups and Push/Pull Volume Pots' knobs have a broader pallette of tones than you will. I am still yet to try/hear. The ES and the Casino Coupe are only superficially alike. M/F for my Epi ES P pro, you get the same. For the low low price quoted by the OP, or the even lower price of $ which I paid. A lot of guitarists find the size body of the original Casino a little unwieldy, but the coupe size, which is closer to a , was much more. The biggest differences as someone else said between the two is that the Casino is fully hollow inside vs the ES having a block of wood.