I agree with Paul 99.98%.
Hopefully for those of us who do like to have at least of every example for a theme (i.e., all chips from a specific casino, or all halloween chips, etc), that this now means we can keep our sets intact without having to take a big hit here or there. It would be great if all future releases can be obtained at reasonable prices.
I always thought it was strange that if a casino knows that all of their chips are going to sellout, why they would limit the $25 production count to 250 or less. Let's just hope some of these Casinos don't get cute and hold some back in the vault so as to emulate a very limited release.
I think this ruling may have a positive effect on past issues to now hold their values. Here is why I think this... If all goes well, we will not see anymore of these very limited issues and all future releases can be obtained at reasonable price. As a result, more collectors would now be willing to try to obtain full sets and as a result will seek out the older issues. It seemed to me prior to this new ruling, that a few people were spooked to jump into that type of collecting because of the uncertainty of keeping the sets complete because of a future release mucking it up.
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