I agree that these particular chips are generally found in one condition - in this case uncirculated. (Except for notched samples. I have definitely seen the $5 Mayor Willie's sample, and I believe the $1 Aspen Mine.) In general, Colorado chips are usually in top condition. Just use the "MS95" column and ignore the others. I suppose we could have put asterisks in the other columns, but I don't think it would look good. As far as notched chips go, I think it is a total waste of time and space to list something twice. (Anyone who thinks this doesn't matter hasn't received a five-figure bill from a printing house.) When a chip is only known in notched, drilled, or damaged condition, we signify this by using an asterisk after the rarity rating. After considerable research into auction reconds, dealer price lists and empirical data, we determined that most of these asterisk chips fall under the 30% rule. In other words, a notched, drilled, or damaged chip is worth about 30% of what it would be if it weren't notched. Special cases, and there are several, are otherwise noted. Anyway, I'm not saying this is a perfect system, but it's the most logical one we could figure out!
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