Because if I can get excited about these chips (and I am very excited to get them):

I must really be a collector. Pretty plain, ugly hot stamps, with nothing exciting about the way they look. You could hardly get any more plain. But, I have been looking for them for some time and I was really excited to open the mail to find them. Yep, now I am truly a chip collector!!

Not that there was any doubt.

Oh yeah, and look at the beautiful reverse side of the GHC chip:

A real beauty!

For those who don't avidly collect Aruba chips, the GHC is from the Grand Holiday Casino on Aruba, the place that introduced Caribbean Stud to the world and was the place poor Natalee Holloway went to the night she disappeared. King International ncv's are just not easy to find. The only other time I saw a GHC for sale, David Spragg had one for $10 in a group of Caribbean chips (and others) on the board about 6-8 years ago. I have never seen any other King International ncv's being sold, or even in person (only pictures in Ralph Pollack's books and on the MOGH). They fill a couple of holes in my collection very nicely. Now, I only have 5 $1 rack chips left to find from Aruba (that are known) and I should have the two new releases within a few weeks, leaving only 3 impossible chips (and much nicer chips) to find. Not a lot of ncv's, but there some hard ones to locate. Right Brian???

Michael Siskin