You need to find one of the dealers who actually handles casino items.

Since you are in the Chicago area, I suggest you go to a coin show and walk around. Collect business cards.

Unfortunatly the biggest show in the area is once a year in April. Central States coin show. It moves around. But I can promise that you will find a half dozen dealers who handle chips. That's out of a couple hundred coin and exonumia dealers.

Point is, you have to find one who works in the casino interest. Some will have booths that are just cents. Some will have silver. Some cheap bins of common coins, others only the high value slabbed stuff.

I'd also suggest that the best offer you'll get from anyone will be from one of the CC>CC dealers, after all your work to find someone else.

Most coin dealers don't care and don't have a clue what you have. It's not their speciality. That's the bottom line.

There was a guy in Kenosha that handled chips and tokens. American Coin. Nice folks. I went in one day and they had no more chips and a skimpy box of tokens. I asked what happened and he said "No interest"

I used to stop at the places in town that buy coins and metals. Same thing, they don't have anything unless it happens to be silver. If I had asked to sell them casino chips, their answer would have been the same. "no interest"

We're in an interesting hobby but it's a specialty market. There's no broad appeal to the coin and token collectors.

I can understand the look and answer you got. I've walked through coin show after coin show and asked for "anything casino" and got looks of distain. Kind of like, get out of here, you are blocking the real collectors.

Bottom line (which it is going to be) go to someone who deals in casino chips and tokens, and both of you will be much happier.

Good Luck, whatever you decide.

CASINO COLLECTING IS FOR FUN!