Mel shared the history of these 1.2.8 Pai Gow chips with me... FASCINATING STORY!! (and he's out of town until Thursday) When I found the $1 chip, I asked him because I had never seen one. the story includes a middle of the night parking lot "deal" to buy back the 1.2.8 Pai Gow chips from a group of unsavories, missing chips and details concerning the design of these chips -- and how they matched some $100 chips from Harrahs that had been conterfeited. If anyone hasn't heard the history behind these chips -- and like brass cores... it's a good one!