The day after the ship was lost at sea I had called their local office here and had several long conversations with management. In a nutshell; all chips were in the casino vault on board. Then, during the conversation, they gave me Summit's phone number. When I called Summit I had a long conversation with the president of the company (this was in 1994, just after the ship was lost) solely about the chips... explaining to him that I wanted to obtain all the info I can in order to pass it on to the hobby. Michael explained to me that there were only the six denominations and everything was shipped to Florida, while he had only one each of the six chips and would send me the artwork. Then, during our long conversation he told me about the gold which was shipped just a few days prior. While absorbing all this info from both the casino and Michael, I later wrote to Numismatic News, Coin World and Florida Token Society documenting the full account so it will go down in history... in an attempt to avoiding any misinformation being tacked on, afterwards... Then, later on, there was further research by others along with the six chips being documented in Mark Lighterman's Florida chip book. Since, there has been a ton of misinformation about what chips were used on the ship along with adding that the second Club Royale casino operation Chipco chips were from the first ship and found washed up on Florida's and Georgia's beaches. We all know that wasn't so.

Michael called me last year on another matter and we talked shop; hashing over the few days after the ship was lost along with the industry (manufacturing). Other than those changes... nothing else has changed about the only six chips manufactured and used on the Club Royale ship casino... and I have been trying to keep it that way since 1994....and when I read that the $5 chips with the three split inserts were part of the casino inventory, I try correcting it...