I still believe the quantities that Jim quoted.
Having looked a little further, I see that one of the 5 sales during those past 3 months was bought by another dealer who then ebayed it again. Another of those sales is currently listed on ebay by another dealer once more.
So although there could be the appearance of 11 completed and 2 current listings, it is only 5 actual chips.
I obtained a few pairs of these from the person that made the find, in a trade, a couple of years ago, and sold them simultaneously here, on ebay and on my website. They were priced based on those known quantities which I believed to be true. Here is my original post:
http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/320/md/read/id/1064225/sbj/fs-el-morocco-las-vegas-obsolete-chips-fs/
I can tell you that one dealer bought 2 of those pairs from me, and both those $5's are amongst the 5 ebay discussed.
Seems the seller decided it was a good time to let them go. In fact, I would swear that the same chips had been previously listed last year (or at least the same scans were used ). Maybe they didn't go high enough for the sellers liking and they didn't really sell at all. Keep an eye out and see if they re-appear again!
I had, I think, a total of 6 $5's at that time. Now, in the last two years I have bought 2 substantial collections which both contained those chips, one of which I had originally sold to the customer. I think I still have one pair left.
So you can see how my 6 $5's alone being both resold and repeat listed could have given the impression of their being about 15 of them.
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