On my last trip to Vegas, I spent some time with Phil and asked about the same questions since those great chips have been surfacing in various auctions....Howards and Saitos etc. Yes, they include the ones Passalaqua found and some others we had not seen before. I remember when we used to trade stack for stack informally 10 years ago and that's not really very long ago. We kid about it a lot now and it seems Phil wants to specialize in collecting silver strikes and other token varieties. One of the old timers that can attribute from actual real time casino playing and sitting at small bars out there in the nowhere desert when no one seemed to care about chips.
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