Back in November 2003, I tried to buy a bunch of the H&C Playboy chips from someone that had a few thousand of them but they wanted way too much for them. I was trying to purchase enough for my home poker game.

Here are a couple threads from around that time frame where these chips were discussed. Might be another thread or two around the same time period. It was an active topic for a little bit...

http://www.thechipboard.com/cgi-bin/tcbarc09/tcbarc09.pl?read=282138

http://www.thechipboard.com/cgi-bin/tcbarc10/tcbarc10.pl?read=295246