This is a poll-type question that I’d like to ask on a strictly academic basis.

Background

There have recently been two variations of the current $1 house chips from the Riviera posted. One has a thicker “R”, and there may or may not be other minor differences. This “variation” undoubtedly exists because of a reorder. The Chip Rack tends to list all of these variations, be they long cane/short cane, minor color variations, etc. The Official… (James and Steve’s book), on the other hand, does not deal with reorder-type variations and will not list this chip separately.

Question #1

If you were to have in your possession what you would consider to be the IDEAL chip guide (or price guide), would both chips be included, or would there be just a single listing?

Question #2

If you think there should be a single listing, do you feel that there should be a comment or note that another variation exists, or do you feel that no note is necessary?

Question #3

(Another way to phrase this issue): If you had only one of these two “variations”, would you feel you were “missing” a chip from your collection, or would you feel that you would have to get the other one as well?

Question #3a

How about some more expensive chips that might fall into this category… take for example the Riviera $25 Christy and Jones chips listed in The Chip Rack as N818 and V6945. These are relatively valuable ($200) chips and they are exactly the same with the exception of the placement of the Riviera logo crest with relation to the printing of the “Riviera” name on the chip (which might have been the result of a reorder, or maybe there was only a single run of the inlays with the dies in different alignments). If you had one of them, would you feel the need to fill the hole left by the lack of the other one?

I’d appreciate your feedback on this, even if your sentiments have been expressed by someone else!