Mike; You specifically mentioned Hard Rock Las Vegas in your post, which is what could be interepreted as the basis for your previous posts.

Lots of gaming juristictions all over the world issue LE's. How many non-collectors picked up a pretty LE or two while on a cruise and decided that it might be kind of neat to collect these things ... in spite of those who may decry the numbers of chips produced at Hard Rock of SOME very limited issues?