Casino 50 Cent Chips (1 Viewer)

[criesen]

I'm browsing around chipguide and noticed there's a good amount of .50 and .25 chips that some casino's apparently still use (status as 'current'). At well under a dollar/chip I'm surprised I don't see them more frequently on here. Some are issued as recently as 2016 but are they just worn to hell and unusable?

A few examples:
http://chipguide.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=CAHGGT
http://chipguide.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=CAGALL
http://chipguide.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=FLTALU

 

[chipinla]

The challenge is how to get them in quantity. You can’t just buy a rack of fracs from the cage.

 

[ChipEnvy]

Most of the time, they aren't that easy to get out of a casino.

 

[AWenger]

My understanding is they're sometimes or only used for "commission" and/or making change for commission for payouts for certain table games, so they're only available in limited quantities at certain table games, and to get them, people may need to sit there to play those table games to collect a couple chips at a time.

Pai Gow poker is one game that does this. One may have to put up a lot of money to risk losing it in a gambling session, just to try to harvest a barrel of $0.25 or $0.50 chips.

 

[ADS Aviator]

The "current" tag in the ChipGuide is updated so infrequently, as to be totally worthless, imo. Perhaps current means, they haven't been called for redemption? Only CHARLES KAPLAN could say for sure.

The chips below are listed as "current". They are not....and have been gone from the casino floor for a long time. I had a conversation with a cage supervisor a couple years ago, who told me they were not in the cage & had been sent off for destruction. Can't be sure it was the truth, but that is what I was told.

 

[ted4944]

ADS Aviator,
I am new to all this information of chip collecting. On this picture you posted, a saved image from the Chip Guide, just before the CG number and "current", I see green and red circles "MC", "WL", "TL" and "TT". How can this option be seen? I see no such symbols when I log into the Chip Guide. Thanks in advance!

 

[ADS Aviator]

ADS Aviator,
I am new to all this information of chip collecting. On this picture you posted, a saved image from the Chip Guide, just before the CG number and "current", I see green and red circles "MC", "WL", "TL" and "TT". How can this option be seen? I see no such symbols when I log into the Chip Guide. Thanks in advance!

If you join the Casino Collectibles Association (CCA), you can request a membership to the ChipGuide. One of the benefits of being a ChipGuide member is the ability to tag individual chips:

MC = My Collection
WL = Want List
TL = Trade List
TT = Top Ten

Great tool for people that collect individual chips. Not perfect, but it's a free benefit for CCA members.

 

[puglia82]

My understanding is they're sometimes or only used for "commission" and/or making change for commission for payouts for certain table games, so they're only available in limited quantities at certain table games, and to get them, people may need to sit there to play those table games to collect a couple chips at a time.

Exactly
I got 3 MGM Detroit quarters playing punto-banco.
a 25$ bet was paid 23.75$: 4x 5$, 3x1$, 3 quarters.
Keeping a rack it's not possible, anyway, because dealers have just small quantities of quarters

In Saint-Vincent casino (northern Italy) they use 1.25 euro chips at punto-banco tables.

 

[Ben8257]

If you join the Casino Collectibles Association (CCA), you can request a membership to the ChipGuide. One of the benefits of being a ChipGuide member is the ability to tag individual chips:

MC = My Collection
WL = Want List
TL = Trade List
TT = Top Ten

Great tool for people that collect individual chips. Not perfect, but it's a free benefit for CCA members.


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That Paris $20 is TT IHC in my eyes! Lol

Dare I say... actually #1 from this bunch atleast.

 

[WedgeRock]

The challenge is how to get them in quantity. You can’t just buy a rack of fracs from the cage.

Anybody remember Made In Detroit from HPT? He did just that at Greektown. @Boother36 has also bought a rack of fracs from the cage.

Most of the time, they aren't that easy to get out of a casino.

Ask @SuckoutKing about the time he walked past the floor with his pockets so full of chips that his shorts were falling down...

 

[joeyshin]

Arc yellow solid hotstamped fracs

 

[ekricket]

Anybody remember Made In Detroit from HPT? He did just that at Greektown. @Boother36 has also bought a rack of fracs from the cage.

You can’t buy Paulsons for the public yet people do. It all depends on your level of desire I suppose

 

[ted4944]

If you join the Casino Collectibles Association (CCA), you can request a membership to the ChipGuide. One of the benefits of being a ChipGuide member is the ability to tag individual chips:

MC = My Collection
WL = Want List
TL = Trade List
TT = Top Ten

Great tool for people that collect individual chips. Not perfect, but it's a free benefit for CCA members.


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I appreciate that info!