When I was preparing my earlier A.C. catalogs, I would purchase some of these high-value chips off the gaming tables just to color photocopy images for my book (and later the website) and immediately returned the chips to the cage on my next visit to redeem ... so that I could go to the next casino and do the same thing all over again. None of these chips above the $100 denomination (except for Playboy) are in my personal collection. I'm glad I did that several years ago, simply to be able to preserve and illustrate what these now forgotten obsolete chips looked like when they were in play.