I picked up a unique charm bracelet at a garage sale and was told it might be made of old Monaco casino chips. There are 10 tokens on the bracelet & 2 matching earrings. I looked in a coin book & found that 2 of the metal pieces (1 franc & 2 franc) look like Monaco coins from 1943 to 1945, but the book says the coins are made of aluminum while these are gold colored & very heavy. There are 2 more gold colored metal tokens (10 & 100) marked Cercle des Etrangers - Monaco. Then there are red, blue & green plastic pieces (10, 20 & 100) marked Societe des Bains de Mer - Monaco, and neat looking maroon plastic ones that are unmarked except for intricate numbers (20 & 40) that seem to be silver & gold metal inlaid in the plastic. Any information would be most appreciated. Thank you.
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