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POD of Face Value Ones 
Good Afternoon Folks, today's POD is all face value one dollar chips, please make your selections. Any traders out there? I am ready to make some more trades, check out the Chip Guide Query page and let's trade. Thanks for checking out my page of the day, this Saturday July 27, 2019. Reggie
UPDATED 3-14-19ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS order by number, name and price. Numbered chips below correspond with position on the image page. Email me direct. Please do not put a sold sign on the item you are buying, I may have more than one. First email in my inbox gets first considerations. P/H is $1 for 1 chip, $2 – 2-3 chips, $3 – 4-5 chips, $4 – 6-8 chips, $5 – 9-12 chips, $6 – 13- 20, $7 – 21-120; this is the max P/H for the U.S. Sorry no Foreign orders. Canadian orders are more. Hold service available. Minimum order is $5 Pay pal accepted, check, cash or money order accepted, also. When ordering, please make payment arrangements within 24 hours. 5500+ Different Chips are Available, see my lists on the Chip Board Query Facility. PLMK when chips are received. Thank You for your requests…Reggie
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The following numbered points are some good policies to carry into the arena of trading with other collectors. Please try to adhere to these guidelines. Any questions please email first.
1) If it is a lopsided trade where additional p/h is required throw in a couple of extra chips (example tokens always weigh more)
2) Always let the trading partner know when you receive your chips.
3) Try not to send severely nicked, damaged, or extremely dirty chips.
4) Some traders require a photo image pre-ceding the actual trades, accommodate them, unless you do not have scan capabilities.
5) Try to be an equal partner in the trade, do not make one party of the trade do all the work.
6) I prefer to trade with CCA members, because of the honesty of this group is very high. I do and have made trades with non-members.
7) I try not to do lateral trading. In other words; I do not like to trade chips I only have one of for another chip I do not have any of; and I have it in my personal collection already. I may do this if this collector/trader is a highly valued club member and customer.
8) Occasionally, I get in over my head on a nice chip; that being said when that happens and I confronted with a trade that just does not fit in my collection, even though the values are the same I may and will turn down the trade requested.
• Let’s go with the obvious first: commons for commons, Current table chips for current table chips, new racks for new racks. Of course, there are always an exception or two to the above rule: For instance if there is a charge to get into the facility, or it is a member only club, you get my drift. I may want more than a common for a chip like a “Greenbriar” or a “Delaware Sport Lounge”. If I was to trade these chips at all. A second exception would be; if you keep your trading inventory lean and mean…and you just ran out of a new common chip that is being offered for your older obsolete chip, and you have two or three of the older obsolete. This constitutes a trade of equal value, because both parties are getting what they need/want.
• Denominations often throw new collectors a curve. Many cannot understand why they cannot trade a common $5 chip for 5 - $1 chips. There are several reasons that this is not something that some collector/dealers do not want to do. One is the ratio of $1 chip collectors to collectors that collect higher denominations. Mostly, in order to acquire the five chips, (from the example above) it takes five times the effort, gas, and expense as it takes the one $5 chip. And yes, the actual value is the same, but not really. Also, invariably the new or novice collector will stray into the higher valued or obsolete chips when picking the 5 that he feels he deserves for the one $5 chip. Some people are ok with this, when you find chippers like that, try not to take advantage of them. I lean on the side of not doing it, but possibly, in part; of a large trade, if the higher denomination is a chip I really want for my collection.
• Next there is a group of chips that are made available by dealer/investors that eventually flood the market, actually lowering value of the chip below its face value; in some cases, it is hard to give them away once you have been unlucky enough to acquire. Examples of this are: Aces Casino, Jok-Erz Casino, Hard Rock Albuquerque, NM, Sonoma Joes, California Bell, etc. These can be mixed in with the commons in most cases. There are some in this group that are very slowly being meted out in order to maintain some value.
• Let’s try and tackle the obsolete group…these have to be traded based on the Guides valuation. And/or the asking price. There are numerous guides, most people are aware of the TCR(The Chip Rack) which covers Nevada. There are also separate guides for CA, WA, MT, and CO. There are also guides that cover areas such as such as the Official U S Casino Chip Price Guide, this guide covers NV, CO, SD (Deadwood), Riverboat States (IL, IN, IA, LA, MS & MO), and Atlantic City. There is one more guide that covers multiple states: A Guide to the Casino Chips of MI, MN, ND SD and WI…and many guides are available on the internet. I will try to help you hook up with the sellers of any of these guides should you be interested. One last thought on obsolete chips, it is always up to the two people that own the two chips that want to trade; to be satisfied with the trade.
• This is a work in progress, will be adding bullets as I think of them…Reggie
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My story about the new Lucky Lady. I had been following the ups and downs of the Normandie Casino online - open, now closed, but actually still open . . . until news of Larry Flynt's purchase of the casino hit the news. But as you know, a big ruckus erupted between Larry and the City of Gardena which wanted a guarantee of $800,000 tax revenue per month in return for certain "favorable allowances." Mr. Flynt refused to cave in and kept the casino closed . . . for a few days. I recognized this as the classic poker-bluff.
Sure enough, the City caved in, and in a news release on July 19, it was announced that the Lucky Lady might open as soon as Friday, July 20. I read this on July 20 . . . and decided to drive down to Gardena to see for myself, with no great expectation that the casino would indeed be open.
But, surprise! The new Lucky Lady was open, in fact its grand opening, marked only by a workman hurriedly applying a new Lucky Lady decal to the front doors. It must have been hurriedly arranged - no balloons, flowers or that sort of thing. Just some dedicated gamblers playin' away . . . with new chips! Which, when I bought some at the Cage, turned out to have the naked lady on the inlay. Shocking, but fun! I had all of $65 with me at the time, and this went fast for 50¢, $1, and $5 chips. Walked around the tables and asked a dealer what those green chips were - $2 drop chips, she replied. Welllll . . . back to the cage for some of those, which the cashier graciously sold. But then - I spied some red chips in a rack and was told they were $3 drop chips - not currently on the tables. But, I asked the cashier, could I buy some as a collector? She shrugged and said it was all right with her. Next problem: no more cash!
Drove frantically around Gardena looking for a compatible ATM and sure enough, a block from the Hustler, the right bank appeared. So, with a newly-acquired $100 bankroll in my pocket, I raced back to the Lucky Lady and bought more chips, including those $3 ones.
Best chuckle of the night: seeing a patron approach the doors of the Lucky Lady, stop, and stare at the new decals. He did a double-take, as if he was on "Candid Camera." But the doors had a familiar look to them, so in he went. I can only imagine his surprise when he got a handful of naked lady chips for his game!
Anyway, that's one of the few casino grand openings that I ever attended, and pretty much all by accident.
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WHEN WE LIVED IN TENNESSEE, OVER THE YEARS WE AVERAGED ONE TRIP TO TUNICA ABOUT EVERY SIX MONTHS. ONE OF THESE TRIPS WAS PLANNED AROUND THE CHANGE OF THE GRAND CASINO BACK AGAIN TO HARRAH’S.
WHILE MAKING THE ROUNDS FOR THE FOLLOWING CHIP DENOMINATIONS: $1’s, $2.50’s & $5’s I DISCOVERED THE LADY BUG CHIP http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=MSTUH3 (CG LINK) HOWEVER, I WAS NOT ABLE TO FIND BUT ABOUT 6 OF THEM. THEY WERE QUITE POPULAR AND I PLANNED ANOTHER TRIP OVER TO TUNICA SEVERAL MONTHS LATER.
THE SECOND TRIP TO HARRAH’S WAS NOT QUITE AS FRUITFUL AS FIRST AS A MATTER OF FACT IT WAS ALMOST A TOTAL BUST. IF NOT FOR THE NORMAL HARVESTING AND THE GRAND OPENING OF “THE ROADHOUSE CASINO” (FORMERLY THE SHERATON) IT WOULD HAVE BEEN. I SAT IN THE HARRAH’S POKER ROOM FOR 4 HOURS OR MORE WHILE THE OFF DUTY DEALERS AND THE CASHIER OF THE POKER ROOM WENT THROUGH ABOUT 30 RACKS OF CHIPS LOOKING FOR THE “LADY BUG”. I DID FIND 2 MORE OF THE LADY BUGS IN THE BLACK JACK PITS.
ON THE WAY HOME WE THOUGHT WE WOULD GO TO “GRACELAND”, NOT A GOOD IDEA; BECAUSE WE RAN INTO TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS, AND HEADED HOME.
NOT A TOTAL BUST, BUT IT WAS A CASE OF I WISHED I HAD FOUND MORE THE 1ST TIME…REGGIE
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FOR THE UNFORESEEABLE FUTURE, I WILL BE POSTING A LIST OF TEN (10) WANTED CHIPS. MOST OF THESE WILL BE CALIFORNIA CHIPS. THE DENOMINATIONS WILL VARY WIDELY FROM 5c TO $500. IF YOU ARE INTO TRADING, I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE IT A TRADE. IF YOU HAVE ONE OR MORE OF MY REQUESTS AND WILL SELL THEM; PLEASE SEND ME YOUR ASKING PRICE. BEAR IN MIND IF I THINK IT IS OVER PRICED THAT I WOULD POLITELY DECLINE OR MAKE A COUNTER OFFER. LET’S MAKE THIS LIST A CHIP SMALLER. THANKS FOR LOOKING IN ON ME, TODAY…REGGIE
FOR WEEKEND OF 7-29-19
CG052429 ULC INC. MODESTO $1 White Small Crown
CG052424 Union Recreation Center Stockton $1 Blue Large Crown
CG171141 VERN Sacramento 50c Green HHL
CG052671 W C SANTA ROSA $20 Brown Large Crown 3 beige
CG149047 Wilburs Players Club Rosamond $100 Fuscia Small Crown
CG052873 Winfall Tehachipi $5 Pink H/C
CG069022 WW (in circle)LOLA'S C R GROVELAND $0 Beige Sqincir
CG053018 Young Era Club San Francisco $0 Red Large Crown
CG152483 ZV (Zieglers) Stockton $0 Gray "L"
CG047331 (PICTURE)3 LEAFCLOVER Great Falls, MT 50c Brown HS - H/C
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On the Chip Guide Query Facility check off the following list: Region - USA > State - Nevada> Collectible Type – Chips/Postcards.
Use the link below to submit your name for membership to the chip guide.
http://www.themogh.org/cg_member_request.php
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