Look closely at the bottom white chip...
I don't know if you can see it, but the blue "thingies" ... oh crap... whatever they're called - APPEAR to have been "re-done" or "moved over".

What I mean by this is - it doesn't just look like the colors ran (which can happen) but to ME, these chips have an "almost air-brushed" appearance. It almost looks like someone was doing the chip - didn't like the results so did it over.

I don't know much about production... but Chipco wouldn't "re-do" a chip OVER a bad one, would they? They'd "re-do" them... but using new materials... but not by covering over what they consider to be a mistake.

??????????????????

I have been stewing about all this for months... including some concerns and confusing observations about not only the $1 Harrah's, but some other chips I got from the Caro Collection.

That's another thing no one ever REALLY answered for me: What the hell was "The Caro Collection" anyway. (Yeah I know... Caro makes roulette wheels in France.)

Is Caro still in business?
Do (or did) they make chips (they primarily made plaques and jetons, right?)
What exactly was their "collection"? Chips they made? Chips they tried to make? Chip they got and wanted to make? Chips they practiced or pretended to make?
Chips they acquired to see what others made?
I have asked these things several times - but no one knows.
I asked the Seller to explain "the Caro collection" (were they displayed at a plant or store - gaming museum style? Or chips they acquired to see what the competition was producing? Never got an answer...

What keeps nagging at me to work harder on "answers" is seeing another chip who's "origin" is questional ALSO emerge in quantity in those auctions. This chip appears to be one manufacturers mold, but has been re-painted or "re-done" into another chip. (also a Harrah's that has nothing to do with Harrah's)

It is time to call the chip cops! SOMETHING stange is going on here