Club members (I believe) have purchased numerous old Hot Stamp dies. There are many blank chips of various molds floating around. It would not take a lot of work to make a fake chip. I do agree that if anyone were to fake a chip they would be a lot smarter to do it to a LV chip. The chip I have could be an unused roulette chip which is why it is new. But that does not explain the deep HS. Most of these deep HS chips have been made in the last few years.