Since Franklin Mint made the gaming tokens for the casino, they are as real as a token dropped from a machine. Franklin Mint struck some tokens from the same dies but with polished planchets and dies and sold them in sets to collectors, casinos, and stockholders in "proof sets". They have shiny fields and often frosted designs.
They also made sets of what they called "proof-like" tokens, so called because while still uncirculated, they weren't struck with the same careful handling and polished planchets. As a practical matter, when out of the holder, it's very difficult to tell a proof from a proof-like token. In some years the proofs were struck in a different metal than the tokens made to be played.
There were $1, $2, and (in 1967) $5 tokens in the sets. Not every casino ordered every denomination. Only one casino ordered a $2.50 token; the only all metal snapper made for Nevada, I believe.
I'll send you a 4Q P/L dollar for $4, delivered.
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