"CHIPCO also offered these chips with other obsolete chips (in a display) after they became obsolete. These were also the first "LE" chips that could have been purchased through the mail directly from the casino."

John; I think the chips you are reffering to are the ones that are permanently imbedded in a lucite type paperweight? If so, these were the first three or four "Chip Of The Year" awards that CHIPCO used to win hands down before Paulson introduced their full graphics chips.