... gifts (and as I've mentioned in the recent VS threads); the first example I sold was sold for $200 (I think I sold a few others at that level as well) and one or two of those resold for $300. Evey $5 VS chip I sold from that date forward was sold for $300. I consigned a stack or two with one or two California chip dealers who sold a few, but then returned the balance when things tapered off. Then (as I also mentioned earlier), about the time David Sarles came into the additional $25 and $5 chips... the prices dropped.

Furthermore, I doubt I was the first person to sell the VS chips, but I was the first person to attribute the chips to the Villa Sierra. I've also mentioned that I stood firm on the Reno attribution and refused to switch gears as asked to do that the chips were Sneed's. The find was way before 2004, and they were offered many years prior to that 2004 sale... and every one of them I sold had been sold for $300... Sure the price dropped once the market was saturated with the chips, but in the early days of te find they were $300 each. Thus, when Mike made his post yesterday, I thought there was solid info found and that's why I asked for the value of the $5 chip. I first thought at the time of Mike's post that there was actual proof that the chips might have been from USPC (check USPC history regarding breakdown of poker chip department) as I've documented by the sole person who was in charge of that breakdown (Mr Mearshein who lived out on Seven Gables when he told a few of us about the breakdown) of the poker chip dept after he returned back home from WWII (in 1947) as equipment was being sent to Burt.