I'm with you. I was stumped as to their purpose. I have a box into which I throw anything I get other than chips. It is an eclectic assortment. It has a multitude of dealer buttons, other casino buttons (lay, off, buy, etc), spoons, dice, matchbooks, a small bottle of nuggets of fools gold, key chains, money clips, smashed pennies, foreign coins, pins, a TJ Cloutier signed Ace of Clubs and, of course, little wooden discs made to look like miniature poker chips. One of these days I will have to post a thread of the miscellaneous crap yard sale.