Archie,

My comments about "chopping" were not directed at you. Sorry if that was not clear. My reference to you was only, like myself, we both have some experience with slabbed coins.

Since nothing has been enacted yet, the Club has not made any anti-slabbing rules. I have seen some proposals that go as far as to ban dealers who sell slabbed chips from having a table at the Club convention. That is whether or not they are even attempting to sell slabbed chips at the convention. There are plenty of people angry enough about this issue to take even more dramatic steps.

Perhaps I am just not smart enough to see far enough into the future to realize that there is no good reason now nor will there every be a good reason to slab a chip. What if there appeared on the market a very rare, unique, chip that had some fragile quality to it. Like the Tahoe Village roulettes with the diecut metal inlays. Why couldn't the owner of such a chip choose to perserve this fragile rare specimen by having it slabbed? Maybe this example is not a great one, but hopefully you will get the idea that there may be now or at some time in the future some legitimate reason (other than economic) for having a chip slabbed.

Just to reiterate, I will not personally have anything to do with slabbed chips. But like Professor Knapp, I believe every individual should be able to make up their own minds about the issue. I would say the majority of the club's members, those that do not follow this bulletin board, do not even know that there is a chip slabbing issue at this time.