Paul; If most dealer on the floor are offering a particular chip for sale... or even three or four dealers are offering the same chip for sale... you can bet the ranch that it is not"rare"! Do you receive lists of chips for sale from dealers? Do you receive auction catalogs/list of chips that are up for bid? How about magazine ads? Do you see the same chips offered in multiple ads for sale? If you do, they ain't "rare" in my book. I don't care what the advertiser claims. Track past auctions and prices realized. Does the same chip re-appear regularly in subsequent ads, even though it fetches handsome prices? No offense Paul, but do you need me or anyone else to sugggest that in all probably it is not all that rare? Archie