... for what we call chips in English. The word is JETON (TOKEN). Granted this is a fact mostly in all French, German and Femish speaking gambling jurisdictions in Europe, French speaking Canada, Asia, West Indies, East Indies - Indian Ocean, South America and in many African countries

The word JETON (Token) has come to mean "plastic" tokens in more recent years only due to manufactures calling them such when illustrating the American style chip and the European (French-type) chip (jeton) in the same catalogue while attracting English/French spreaking readers.

JB