>>Interesting, I didn't know that. It makes sense that the chips in display sets would be medal aligned for easier right-side-up viewing of reverse side.<<

They may have thought about buying holders to use to sell the sets as a complete display collectible. Some of the sets also had a stackable edge design on them, so holders wouldn't have made much sense for those sets. They were all (as far as I know) sold at the cage at face value in a baggie. Early on you could choose what variety you wanted. I probably bought 10 sets, had at least one of every set made, gave my last set to Katie at the convention as part of her "just because" chips.

>>Anyhow, Chipco had been the only chip maker to align obverse & reverse sides until the recent Paulson production that Greg noticed.<<

You are probably right there. Chipco also made the Bronco Billy's $1 enameled chokens, and they ended up in both varieties. If I remember right, the medal alignment is the rarer of the two.

Bob