In answer to the above post, which said:

"Chuck, have you ever seen a true RARE chip for under $100.00?." I have two SMALL points to make:

(1) hardly any POKER chip is worth more than $50 or $100, YET MANY ARE TRULY RARE. (I am talking about the generic plain inlay chips, and the generic embossed and engraved chips. Litho inlays (crest and seal) and special order plain inlay momograms can be worth way over $100 especially if identified as to a club.); and

(2) many things can be rare and still be worthless or uncollectable. One example I always remember given by a top playing card deck collector. (Deck collectors usually shun recent decks (less than 50 years old) and most bridge (narrow size) decks. They like poker size (wide) decks. Advertsing decks with interesting special faces are particularly good.) Anyway, he gives this example: say, a small town drug store 50 or so years ago ordered 200 bridge size advertising decks with the advertising message only on the backs of the cards, and let us say just one deck survived. The deck MIGHT be worth something to a resident of the town, but it is generally worhless to serious playing card deck collectors.
Robert