(Note that my on-line article needs updating in respect to this info, as promised in the past )
Most of you will be aware that Borland originally issued his commemorative chips in sets of 7, being one each $1, $5, $25, $100, $500, $1000 & $5000. You will also know that when he re-ordered these chips the newer vesions were not identical. In the case of the $1, $25, $100 & $500 there was a clear change in the size of the inserts. For the top 2 denoms, 'pies' were replaced with 4 insert chips.

In total, including the 2 Jolly Trolly errors and the $1 Mint, that led to 103 chips being produced.
Now in fact the $5 were of course reordered also, but as both the originals and re-orders had 1/2" inserts I did not bother to distinguish them in my article as I was not certain people would be able to tell them apart.

Now, after studying them in more detail, and gaining more info from Jim Blanchard, I believe I can demonstrate the differences clearly. I will be adding these to my article with annotated 'a' numbers. I will also try and improve on all the scans in the article. These $5's are nothing new to me as Gene will testify. In fact I was the one that discovered them. Its just that its taken me near a year to get round to making this post These extra 5 chips make the final total 108 as demonstrated earlier by Gene.

Im going to start by pointing out that some time after the original orders were fulfilled, ASM sough to reduce cost by reducing and even in some cases eliminating the 'brass flecks' in the chips.
This at least tells us one thing. A $5 chip with no brass flecks is a re-order. The converse is not necessarily ture as we dont know the exact point that ASM changed the process.

The next thing is to study the scans below. The original issues are at the top and the re-orders at the bottom.

Firstly note that the shapes of the inserts are always a bit irregular on the original issues where they are quite regular on the remakes. This actually holds true of all the denominations.

El Rancho: The re-order is a deeper/brighter pink and the blue of the inserts is paler (and in fact more purple than blue)

Mint: The original is a very dark brown. The re-order is more of a red-brown and the inlay is a brighter pink (again this holds true for all re-ordered Mint denoms)

Pussycat: The original is pale brown with turquoise inserts, the re-order is brown with blue inserts.

Silver Slipper: The original is dark orange with an inlay of yellow. The re-order is dark red wih an inlay of light orange. Again both these inlay colors match those on the other denoms.

Thunderbird: Probably the hardest to distnguish as the colors are the same. Note that the inlay on the re-ordered chip is paler yellow. ALL re-ordered denoms have these paler inlays. Note also (as above) the uniformity in the inserts of the re-orders.

I hope the pics below are clear enough for all to see.

If you have any queries over what you may have in your collections, plese email me scans or bring the relevant chips to the convention. I will bring mine also, plus all my spares. If your wants lists alters as a reult of this new info then please let me have your updated list.