Hi Chuck

As Don mentioned, they were made for the chip show that Mel & I put on in Reno. The reason they were made, contary to Gene's comment, was we had scheduled one of our club members to deal the game of Faro. We had the room off the lobby of the El Cortez rented for this purpose. Unfornutely gaming heard of our demo & put a stop to it. We then used some in a few 21 games and even used some at the bar. We have told any one that was interested that they were show chips. Also as Don mentioned they were made by 'Royce 600', not reliable brass. armin
Gene
You have no call to refer to them as 'Mel's gems' or conterfiets, armin