Walter you are right New Jersey and the second state is Illinois.

You are also right in thinking that they are “snapped” right back as a tip to the dealer. Your travel and observation in the different casinos in Europe, Africa countries has given you insights into their unwritten tradition of giving the “bonus chip” as a tip for the dealer. Again, I say that you are in the area of snapper field of specialization as a collection by itself. My knowledge and my love – a devotion sort of, now I owed so much to Bob and Georgia Feeney and the likes of Chuck Mades, their couching and long talks for years in and out of the convention has focused my collection on snapper casino chips – worldwide.

Twenty to thirty years ago the word snapper was probably a “foreign” word to some chip dealers and collectors alike. Bob Feeney (got the title of “Mr” $2.50”) rightly so deserved the honor of the name, made a large display of his collection of $2.50 as side exhibit.

The snapper collectors express their gratitude to Gene Trimble’s foresight of suggesting to use and print on the chips “Snapper” Family Series (Sammy, Sandy, Sonny and Staci) in yellow and red series of four $2.50 chips. However, the big question I have is why at the bottom of the same chips it shows ‘Blackjack Bonus’. Also issued in the same year 1995 was a special snapper $2.50 (card suits mold) chip.

I wonder why they call it a bonus chip; what is the reason or logic of such naming. It should be noted; that as far as I am concerned it is part of a payoff for a $5.00 bet with blackjack is $7.50. Four Queens, Las Vegas, Nevada is considered with their issuance of these 9 $2.50 chips in 1995 with the word “snapper” imprinted as the official declaration that the $2.50 is a snapper.

But how to include those denominations you mentioned from other countries is a problem baffling the snapper collectors. Time will tell what the future of snappers per se will be.

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