While in Atlantic City last weekend, I had the pleasure to acquire 20 different Tropicana LE's in one fell swoop!

Without naming names, I want to thank the participants for making this happen, because in Atlantic City you can't just go to the cage and ask for chips. Not even every day house chips. You can only get them off the tables. What a shock! In fact, I don't know how the Atlantic City New Issue Service people do it!!!!! (Perhaps they are lucky that very little is being produced there. )

To make a long story short and without giving away details that may be awkward, at one point in my travels through the Tropicana I was told to stand by a certain blackjack table that was soon due for a fill. When the fill arrived there was stack of $5 LE's (20) that were sold to me as my buy-in, for $100.

I then decided not to play and walked away. It was great!

Scanned below is my acquisition, sans the 2001 Year of the Snake, that I gave up to my benfactor. It is blacked-out on the scan at the lower right corner.

The Pit will be thanked separately with a variety of cards.

Jim Follis