This summer will mark my 16th full year of collecting and since day one I have been looking every day for new chips for my collection. Tonight i decided to pick one chip from each state I collect except Las Vegas that I feel represents the countless number of hours searching and obtaining. Here is a small description of how I gathered the chip.

1.00 Red Little Six Bingo Prior Lake MN. Obtained from Lee O'dell who is just as avid Minnesota collector as me. Can only image the nightmare for the dealers mixing up 1.00 and 5.00 chips.
2.50 Comanche Nation Lawton OK. Obtained from Rich Burgle before his store closed.
5.00 Hard Rock Biloxi MS. Obtained from Ebay but chip never used as they casino was mostly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. I am still missing the 1.00 version.
1.00 Isle Vista Casino WI. Obtained from Club member and this chip is the error version and has the same picture on both sides.
1.00 Harrahs St Louis MO. Obtained from Ebay but convinced the person to sell it me right away before anyone else saw it. Never seen another for sale.
1.00 Mandalay Bay Las Vegas NV. Took almost 15 years to find 5 of these at the right price.
1.00 Jerry Nugget Las Vegas NV. Also took just about 15 years to get 5 of them but love the color and I am a sucker for CIC chips.
1.00 Dunes Las Vegas NV. You can never go wrong with Dunes and thanks to Mark F he gave me a great price on these chips at the last convention.
5.00 Belle Sioux City IA. I purchased a large Iowa collection about 10 years ago and as I was sorting through and found this 5.00 Backup chip mixed in with the other 5.00 chips. Didn't spot it at first but something caught my eye and the rest is history.
1.00 Queen of New Orleans LA. Obtained this chip from Jim Kruse last year when he decided to let a few chips go. Glad to finally have this chip in my collection.
25.00 Silver Eagle E Dubque IL. Obtained from Ebay when I purchased a large 25.00 chip collection that filled in a lot of Iowa 25.00 chips also.
7th Street Casino Kansas City Kansas. First of all who doesn't like Octagon chips and for a casino that doesn't have table games they sure did issue some really nice one. Too bad Jim no longer works there as we could use some new Chips.

Thanks for reading.

Paul Schaffer
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