At any given moment, I remember the price for those Rounders chips was always pretty ridiculous. I never liked the Roman mold on the originals. I thought the scroll mold, HHR mold, and even the TR King replicas were better than the original.
10-15 years ago, spending $25 on a single ASM chip seemed pretty ridiculous. And of course, here we are now, and it's 5x the cost.
10 years ago, I also hesitated to buy custom spotted TR Kings at $0.86/pc, because c'mon man, Paulson is coming out with more and more variety of home poker chips on their new Paulson mold. We had Pharaoh's, Hat&Cane, Isthmus City, National Poker Series, Private Cardroom, Avalon Club, etc.
Now what do we have for "clay"? ASM/CPC? Dirty rounded edge closed down casino chips? Old Paulsons series that sees massive price inflation with each change of hands?
Sorry for the rant.