Chip Riddle - What am I looking at? (Majestic Star $100s) (1 Viewer)

[CardRally]

Can someone help explain what is going on here?

I didn’t want to derail the auction here:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/marketplace/leaded-majestic-hundos-–-as-is-auction-please-read.481/

I have heard of a rack check, and the more general definition as one chip hitting into another and leaving a mark. And I have seen chips in all conditions, bike tires that barely hold air, chips melted in casino fires, chips buried in cement only to be later unearthed. But I haven’t ever seen a chip quite like this. I cannot solve the riddle of what happened here.

What happened to this chip?
By what means, and to what end?

Has anyone cleaned them?
How, and what were the results?

Thanks!

 

[casinochipper22]

my guess for these chips is a rack check means checking if the rack is full by scraping something like a chip across face of the chips on the outside of each barrel that are sitting in the rack. all the marks are straight across the whole face. So some aggressive cage employee was just digging chips across other chips. these employees should be fired for disrespecting art. i guess the long term bad karma for this move is inhaling tiny bits of lead and dirt each time they counted down their bank.

no clue on cleaning.

 

[suchj0sh]

It really is so extreme on those. Idk if casinos really care about the condition of their chips, but you’d think they would take notice of the entire face of their $100 chips being obscured by damage/filth.

 

[CardRally]

my guess for these chips is a rack check means checking if the rack is full by scraping something like a chip across face of the chips on the outside of each barrel that are sitting in the rack. all the marks are straight across the whole face. So some aggressive cage employee was just digging chips across other chips. these employees should be fired for disrespecting art. i guess the long term bad karma for this move is inhaling tiny bits of lead and dirt each time they counted down their bank.

no clue on cleaning.

This does explain the straight lines crossing the center of the chip. I have just never seen it to this extent. And how often were people bringing full racks of hundos to the cage?

It really is so extreme on those. Idk if casinos really care about the condition of their chips, but you’d think they would take notice of the entire face of their $100 chips being obscured by damage/filth.

Haha yes! There had to be one day that this chip face was only half black. They decided to just keep on doing what they were doing.

I am now noticing the small silver flecks in these chips. There has to be something unique about the composition that has turned them into chip-shaped black crayons.

 

[CardRally]

Flecks can be seen here, from a different past sale:

 

[casinochipper22]

And how often were people bringing full racks of hundos to the cage?

this has to be from the cashiers having to count down their bank every shift. so three to six times a day, these serial killer cage employees were vandalizing clay. Taking all their frustrations out on these poor innocent chips.

the deepest scratches must be from the cashiers starting their shift. I can just imagine what they are thinking while counting down their bank... "F#%K this job! I'm going to destroy these damn chips!" or "why do I have to verify these racks of black??? None of these broke customers ever touch a black chip in Gary Indiana! DAMMIT!"