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CHIP OF THE DAY - What Kind of Chips Can I Collect?
Welcome to the first of what I hope will be many Monday-Friday postings. I'll be giving you a sneak peak at the more than 100 chips from the article I'm writing for the "Casino Collectable News". Because so many great chips will be left out of my articles these posts will include "If you like this chip what else could you collect that is similar?" pictures & information. Each COTD & its friends will be saved into a PDF with high-resolution scans. Once we get thru all of the chips the end result will be a 100+ page book called
....drum roll please... "What Kind of Chips Can I Collect?" which will be freely available to all CCTGCC members and Chip Board participants.
I welcome any suggestions, feedback & most importantly corrections.
So, without further delay here is the Chip Of The Day - What Kind of Chips Can I Collect? for 9/27/2012!
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Collecting by chip denomination is very common so we'll start here. Casino table games are well stocked with $1, $2.50 (blackjack), $5 and $25 dollar chips making these denominations the collecting sweet spot.
Borland counterfiet $25
Reasons to collect include....
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Denomination: $25
Closed Casino
Fantasy / Fake / Counterfeit: Borland
Mold: Nevada
Other: animal picture
Notes/Information: The CCGTCC website states Bill Borland was a chip manufacturer and one of the first chip dealers. A Borland Counterfeit is a chip manufactured by Bill Borland that was not authorized by the casino.
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If you like this chip what else could you collect that is similar? Well, Mr. Borland made 7-15 chips for 10 different closed Las Vegas casinos so there's about 100 chips right there. Also shown a chip made to look like a Borland copy.
Reasons to collect include....
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Denomination: $100
Closed Casino
Fantasy / Fake / Counterfeit: Borland
Mold: Nevada
Other: picture of a building
Reasons to collect include....
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Denomination: $1
Closed Casino
Fantasy / Fake / Counterfeit: “fake” Borland fake?
Mold: Nevada
Other: picture of an animal
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