I am against the whole long can short thing !!
As long as I have one $1.00 chip then I am good. I cant spend the time to find all the slight variations with the exception of chips like The Barbary coast as Greg pointed out with different years on them that appear through black light or the Orleans that actually print the year on the front and even many of those i still dont have. I'll stick to buying some older chips that should appreciate much better than buying each slight varaition. This happened to Sport cards a while after they came out with so many varietys, gold foil, silver series and it killed the hobby as the collector didnt know what one to buy, some bought all and others were discouraged(yours truly) and left the hobby altogether. If you enjoy the hunt and time the variation demands then I say , Enjoy !! I just wont be one of those collectors. Will the TCR assing seperate numbers to all the variations?? Just my humble opinion as we all collect a little differently.