I agree with you, Archie, about collectors being "gun shy" in the future.

When I started colleting, I decided to limit myself to $1 chips because the value seldom dipped far below a buck. But $5 chips, $25 chips, and $100 chips can be worth many times their face value, or only a dollar. A collector has to know too much to keep track of the values of, say, $100 chips. With $1 chips, the risk of devaluation is so slight that it's not worth worrying about.

A hoard like this - and any other warehouse find, etc. - not only renders a former investment in Playboy chips a losing proposition, but it deters others from collecting high-value chips in the future. "Once burned, twice shy."