are twenty (20) chips from the closed Grand Casino located in the Mullet Bay area of St. Maarten. It was a nice casino (I went there on a couple of different vacations).

Then in 1995 came Hurricane Luis:

That reduced the Grand Casino into this:

There is a story that goes along with this - these are the words of the person I purchased the chips from - I have no idea how much is true:

"There is a story that goes along with these Grand Casino chips - as you know the casino was destroyed by hurricane Luis in 1995. Immediately after the casino fell it was looted by locals. They went nuts - they stole all the furniture, gaming equipment, etc. Some of the more astute thieves went straight for the casino vault, which they attempted to pry open with crowbars, etc. Realizing they couldn’t gain entry using just leverage and drills, they blew the whole thing up with dynamite. The blast was so immense that they ended up blowing up much of the money in the vault along with many of the chips. They did make off with the remaining cash in the safe. Since that time the blown up vault (still containing the seemingly worthless chips) has been just sitting around amidst the ruins - the property has not been developed since the old casino was destroyed. A local business man recently gained permission from the old manager of the casino to collect all the chips which were mostly very dirty, wet, etc from sitting around exposed to the elements for so long - he wanted to give them to his kids to play with. After he collected them all from the property another local made him an offer for the lot. They cleaned up all the chips and tried selling them on ebay. They were mostly unsuccessful - mostly because they lacked Basic English skills - and I managed to buy many of the chips. They are the ones who told me this history. I would imagine that when the vault was originally looted people took all the $1000 and $5000 chips they could find just because they perceived they might have some value."

are ten (10) of the $5 chips and ten (10) of the $25 chips. $65 shipped in the US. UK bidders welcome - S&H will be slightly more. First email gets 'em.