Well that beats the phone call I got from someone who offered to sell me some $500 casino chips, because he heard I collect casino chips.

First thing I said was "Do they say Casino de Ithmus City" on them? and he said yes. I said, they came from the Paulson store and are sold for home play sets. Sold for 65 cents each and might be worth up to three dollars to a collector.

The conversation ended there.

I never got the story where the deal was coming from. The guy could have been trying to scam me or could have been selling them because someone else used them to pay a debt.

Makes you wonder how out of all the casinos in the world, I knew that on a cold call, they were Casino de Ithmus fantasy chips?

Because these "love" chips are everywhere. Coin shows, dealers bins and without the James Bond prop claims, they are still available just about everywhere.

The first time I saw this chip for sale must be over 12 years ago. Yet people are still trying to sell them as real, or as movie props (which they were not) or don't know that there never was such a casino.

If the most common fantasy chip. One that was sold in Las Vegas, Reno, Atlantic City and other places, for over a decade, and on the web, known to just about everyone, is still coming up for sale as real... imagine how hard it is to identify every private set made over the years.

I collect Fantasy chips. I think the H mold chips are great looking. I suspect we'll see people trying to sell them some day as real chips from the 50s, with a story of how their "Grandmother won them, so they must be real" I won't be collecting the H-mold chips.

I don't think putting Las Vegas NV, on any fantasy chip, is a good idea. Even with the opening and closing dates, the so called commemorative chips are a pain in the butt.

As for the message that started this all, as a "joke". A simple would have helped. I didn't know of these chips and didn't know that someone had made them or was selling them. Something as small as and there wouldn't be any doubts about intentions. Of course the first reply tipped me off.

Nothing against the people who have their own home play sets made, or the person who designed and commissioned h-mold chips that started this recent discussion.

My commenst are intended in general, against Fantasy chips that can easily be mistaken for real chips.

The point is, that if people still don't recognize the most common, most sold, best known fantasy ever made, from a casino and place that never existed... how will they know a private issue, marked Las Vegas Nevada, isn't real?