I've been part of some threads recently where there was a discussion of CPC chips and their expense and either low or zero resale value. Some comments were made about using L9+ chips and average price per chips well over $5 a chip. As a thought exercise I put together a CPC Lakeshore tribute set using CPC edge spots and colors. There were some really constructive feedback given and I feel like I learned some in the process. Additionally there was some feedback in DMs about previous Lakeshore tributes and how they never really landed well given the CPC limitations.
Taking what I learned from that thread I've come up with the following design.
Goals would be to create a set with the following qualities:
-800 chips: .05/.25/1/2/5/20/100
-Cali colors
-Average price per chip of $3 per chip
Brown: 0.05 - 100
Red: 0.25 - 100
Blue: 1.00 - 200
Green: 2.00 - 100
Yellow: 5.00 - 200
Black: 20.00 - 80
White: 100.00 - 20
This set gives an average price per chip of $3.49. This is obviously not meeting all of the goals as it misses by $0.50 per chip.
The single most expensive chip is the $100 at $4.95 chip however at a qty of 20 there is not much ground to be gained here. The Yellow $5 chip is $4.88 a chip owing to the complicated spot patterns as a Level 9 chip. Taking this chip to a 4D14 instead of a 4QD14 drops from Level 9 to Level 4 drops the price per chip from $4.88 to $3.36 a chip and the average price per chip to $3.11.
For example:
Similarly, the shaped inlays could all be removed from the set, this would drop the average price per chip to $3.19 per chip.
Taking what I learned from that thread I've come up with the following design.
Goals would be to create a set with the following qualities:
-800 chips: .05/.25/1/2/5/20/100
-Cali colors
-Average price per chip of $3 per chip
Brown: 0.05 - 100
Red: 0.25 - 100
Blue: 1.00 - 200
Green: 2.00 - 100
Yellow: 5.00 - 200
Black: 20.00 - 80
White: 100.00 - 20
This set gives an average price per chip of $3.49. This is obviously not meeting all of the goals as it misses by $0.50 per chip.
The single most expensive chip is the $100 at $4.95 chip however at a qty of 20 there is not much ground to be gained here. The Yellow $5 chip is $4.88 a chip owing to the complicated spot patterns as a Level 9 chip. Taking this chip to a 4D14 instead of a 4QD14 drops from Level 9 to Level 4 drops the price per chip from $4.88 to $3.36 a chip and the average price per chip to $3.11.
For example:
Similarly, the shaped inlays could all be removed from the set, this would drop the average price per chip to $3.19 per chip.
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