While the 25c was always considered fairly common, the 50c and $1 were very rare until a few years ago with only a few known in collectors hands and those that had them paid big bucks.

I managed to find a guy that had an original case of them that looked like they had not been opened in over 50 years.

There were 294 chips in the box with just under 100 of each of the 3 denominations.

Most were in awesome shape and I still have roughly 20 of each with small nicks or marks on them.

I originally offered this set to people on the chipboard for $50 a set (They booked at that time for $1500+) and sold a dozen or so sets.

I then raised the price to $75 and sold about 20 more sets.

After that I sold for a while on Ebay in the $125-$175 range.

My original plan was to sell off only 1/2 of them to help keep the price up and never sell them for less than my initial offering to protect those that purchased them.

The remainder I have been donating a few sets a year to the raffle, auction, poker tournament bounties and other club fundraisers.

I never hid the totals on these chips and wanted to make them available to everyone at a good price.

The set that was in the club auction this year went for over $120 with fees.

Most of what you see on ebay are being sold by people who won raffle prizes or other club giveaways and dont collect them.

I can say that the 50c is the toughest as there were more of those damaged than any others (Most of the $1 chips were perfect).

There are no more than 60-65 sets out there right now as I still have 30-35 in my posession.

In my opinion this is still a $100 set but time to time you see items selling for less than true value on Ebay.
I purchased a chip on ebay just a few weeks ago for $250 that I have been offered well over $1000 for as an example.

I think the set at $75 that Bob is offering is a steal.

Hope that helps explain about these chips.

Doug