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Our hobby has mushroomed in the past ten years.

- There are more chip-related sites.

- There are more chip collectors interested in exhibiting their collection in newspaper and magazine articles and at numismatic conventions.

- There have been several chip books published in the last ten years as well.

- Where never before [the last ten years] has there been an organized chip meet/exhibition off our shores... some well-organized functions on an International level have taken place in Germany and Spain. Something I do not know of ever taking place before.

- In all [the last ten years]... I'd venture to say that our hobby is catching on in a bigger way.