One year while manning our club hospitality table at F.U.N., in Orlando, a man stopped by our table and introduced himself as someone from Panama who was in the process of writing a book, and asked if I could help him out with any info on vintage casino chips from Panama... especially those dating back to the French tables in the Zone, I hooked him up with a few folks at USPC in order to at least be able to obtain some photos of the material in their files. He did well. I then decided to go a step further and try to search around for a few examples that year, and finally did locate some material from Club Mirama and Club Unoin (some litho inlays had die-cut numerals on the reverse); looking forward to meeting him shortly at the next F.U.N. Convention. As I approacrd him on the midway, he greeted me with open arms while whipping out a copy of his newly published work (mentioned above). He said "check out the chip section" where I zoomed in on several C&S chips while noticing most were example w/ mounting drillholes. The salesman part of by brain started sending mumble sounds to my tongue and I blurted out... "I have these chips from your country that probably nobody else in Panama has." He was the president of Asocoacion Numismatica de Panama at the time. While his eyes lit up, he gatherd up as many fellow Panama coin collectors he knew of who were on the floor, and to my surprise, some were from far off lands, but collected Panama. They, too, have never seen the actual C&S chips I had tightly gripped in my hand. They examined the pieces; enjoyed what they saw, and went on with what I thought was the normal thing to do at a coin show... walk the floor... but, rather, they ran to the pay stations and started calling home... I was right; nobody in his country knew of the chips (other than the photos USPC provided). It was an enjoyable event...

Ok, Rich... take it from here.

JB