"April 25, 2008 Unwelcome News for Chip Collectors A work crew excavating a path for a new community center in Hernando, Miss. earlier this month uncovered a bizarre treasure trove: a huge stash of chips from the Playboy Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, which closed a couple of decades ago. The chips should have been destroyed by the company that formerly occupied the site and had been hired for the purpose, but for some reason they buried them instead. The flood of these once rare chips onto the market (eye witnesses say locals, and even cops, were scooping up bucketfuls of them) has reduced the value of the $100 chip, previously trading at a book value of $3,000, to almost nothing, as reported in yesterday's New Jersey Star-Ledger.om web site"