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Looking for a single Mapes $100. Have 2 Mapes $1's, and a $5 2 $5's and a Nevada Club $500 for trade. The $1's are typical casino used. The $5's and the NC $500 are in excellent condition. I'm a bit of a SCROWN collector so I may have something else to sweeten the pot. Thanks!

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Good luck! Hope you are able to source one, definitely a goal of mine to get one of each denomination.
 
I think that chip goes for more than face value. You might need to up your ante
Thanks Mark. I was kind of waiting for a response like this. I'm out of the loop when it comes to current value.
 
Added a couple more chips. Can make up the difference with cash or more chips. Looking to complete a sample set. Let me know. Thanks.
 
It happens. They used to be fairly cheap. I bought my last one for $10 at the convention. That was after not finding a single one there for three years. Some dealers have no idea what us degenerates will pay. If it would have been an auction, it would have broke 100-150 (IMO)

Rumors of a Mapes hoard are all around the chip world but I’ve never found them, unless it was Spinettis who is now depleted.

The only chips I have seen in great quantities were the $5’s. The $25’s being the next most prominent. The $1’s are still hard to find in quantity, but I have been told they were once so common dealers but them in their junk bins at shows. Still, if you put all the known playable sets together we may account for 1000 of them.

Im not sure the set owners here could combine for more than a rack of $100’s. I spoke to a dealer in Vegas who said he had a box of them come into his shop years ago but he didn’t buy them. I believe he may be mistaking a box of Mapes Money Tree $100’s but he swore they were just Mapes.

I think more will come out eventually. I know Mike Spinettis had a killer set he showed me on his phone a few years ago. Not sure what will happen to them since he passed, but I’d assume they will or have been sold off.

Its not an impossible task to find a set, just usually a long, frustrating, expensive one ;)

I know someone here is working on a nice lot and hopefully they can close the deal to bring some more of these beauties to the community.

Mapes were my passion ever since I saw Starmans set in the CT days. Good luck on the search.
 
If you want an honest/blunt opinion, this trade bait isn't going to cut it. You have ~$100 worth of fairly easy to obtain chips that you're trying to trade for a unicorn chip that sells for $150+ at auction on eBay. Anybody who has one surely already has all of those chips you're looking to trade.
 
Appreciate all the honest feedback. I knew they were desirable, but didn't quite realize they were a unicorn. :oops:
 
WOW, the price on that is insane already. I know they are rare but looks like it's going to be a while before I try to pick one up.
 
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