Metallic Gold Base color chips?? (1 Viewer)

[GoStumpy]

I saw the Vinyards $500 chip today, and I've always been in love with the spot colors on the HS Cleveland Secondary $1000 chip...

I'm not an individual chip collector at all, but this might be the first individual chip search I'm on...

What chips do you know of that have this Metallic Gold as the base color? Is there any way to search for this?

Thanks!

Starburst:

Horseshoe Hammond $2:

Vineyard $500:

Anyone think of any others?

 

[links_slayer]

Fitzgerald (Reno) quarter?

 

[Phantom]

Golden Nugget $1000

 

[BGinGA]

What chips do you know of that have this Metallic Gold as the base color?

All of the crappy ones.

Worst color ever, closely followed by metallic silver. Looks great for about 3.5 milliseconds.

 

[btbmason]

The T5k chip at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh is metallic gold, but that won't help much as it's a hard chip to harvest (10k starting stack in most tourneys and they don't appear until they color up the T25.) - This photo is mine.



I also believe the Paulson LeCove $1k and Paulson ACF $500 are metallic gold, but I could be mistaken. - These photos were posted by other members and are not mine.

 

[upNdown]

All of the crappy ones.

Worst color ever, closely followed by metallic silver. Looks great for about 3.5 milliseconds.

So do they clean up well?
Oh, I think I have one in a Casino de Mecico sample set. Gotta go look.

 

[upNdown]

Yup. Same as that LeCove chip. Which means there are probably others in Paulson's fantasy lines.

 

[iballman]

I seem to see a pattern that this color in particular wears poorly, at least worse than other colored spots. For example, on Empress $5 secondary's, the edge spots are noticeably thinner than the rest. Even on some Cincy $100 primaries, any damage seems to be more likely to be on that color. Any one else see that or have an explanation?

 

[GoStumpy]

Those Le Cove ones are what I was originally picturing but couldn't remember

 

[GoStumpy]

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/152018458143

One of those on eBay

Then a Casino de Mexico:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/291847275810

$16 shipping is normal?

 

[pltrgyst]

All of the crappy ones....

Still on the rag, eh? :

.... Worst color ever, closely followed by metallic silver. Looks great for about 3.5 milliseconds.

An interesting exception is the Vineyard $500s, probably because of the supergiant inlay. I've never seen one that looks as bad as, say, the Fitz quarters.

Maybe that's a general advantage of larger inlays that has never been come up before on CT/PCF...

 

[BGinGA]

do they clean up well?

Nope. They sometimes look okay out-of-the-box (sometimes not), but it doesn't take long before they just look mottled and dirty. And nothing can be done to restore them.

 

[DJ Mack]

The Cinti $100s convinced me that even as an edge spot this is one color I'm not sad CPC doesn't offer. I'm glad my cleaning efforts for naught weren't a failure on my part. It's like the 60's called and wants its gawdiness back.

 

[kmccormick100]

It's a color I've always loved, but it doesn't ever clean up well with ultrasonic, magic eraser or anything I know of

 

[dew4au]

Fitzgerald (Reno) quarter?

All of the crappy ones.

Worst color ever, closely followed by metallic silver. Looks great for about 3.5 milliseconds.

Agreed. Back when the Fitz quarters were on sale people were going bananas over a metallic gold frac. I wasn't impressed by the pictures, but I went ahead a picked up two racks because I thought they may look better in person.

So much disappointment opening up that Chiproom package. I sold them the next week. Lesson learned. Sometimes you need to stay away from the hype train when it doesn't pass the smell test.

 

[upNdown]

Agreed. Back when the Fitz quarters were on sale people were going bananas over a metallic gold frac. I wasn't impressed by the pictures, but I went ahead a picked up two racks because I thought they may look better in person.

So much disappointment opening up that Chiproom package. I sold them the next week. Lesson learned. Sometimes you need to stay away from the hype train when it doesn't pass the smell test.

I don't feel like I've seen many Gold quarters for sale, so whoever has them must like them. How bad could they be?

 

[GoStumpy]

I want a rack of those, lol... GOOOOooollddd!!!

 

[luckbox]

I don't feel like I've seen many Gold quarters for sale, so whoever has them must like them. How bad could they be?

they may not be pretty but they serve the purpose if you are looking for a HS quarter for your game, years back any quarter was tough to find....

my 400 fitz quarters...serve me well

but i will agree there are better looking ones out there

 

[dew4au]

I want a rack of those, lol... GOOOOooollddd!!!

No, you don't! Trust me... lol

 

[upNdown]

Hmm. Now I feel like I might want some.

 

[mike32]

I have a rack and I like them. They are the heaviest Paulson chips I have ever felt. They look OK but not great. Their age and history make up for most of the homliness imo.

 

[AWenger]

I seem to see a pattern that this color in particular wears poorly, at least worse than other colored spots. For example, on Empress $5 secondary's, the edge spots are noticeably thinner than the rest. Even on some Cincy $100 primaries, any damage seems to be more likely to be on that color. Any one else see that or have an explanation?

Yes, I've noticed this too, especially on the Empress $5s. It's as if the used chips are no longer truly circular, but have slight dimples where the gold spots are. The only explanation (guess?) I have is that the pigment/metallic additions makes the gold clay composition more prone to be worn away, kind of like how different types of rocks wear differently in riverbeds over time.

I have a barrel of Paulson solid gold colored roulette chips, in very good shape, but used -- the surface faces retain stains on them that do not come out with cleaning, dish soap or ultrasonic cleaning, and the edges aren't metallic anymore - the chips look brown in racks, not gold. The edges of the LeCove $1000s posted above look 100x better, but these are probably are brand new, unhandled, chips.

Worst color ever, closely followed by metallic silver. Looks great for about 3.5 milliseconds.

I have to agree with this blunt assessment.

 

[joker80]

Pretty sure Mandalay bay has one as a drop chip

 

[Steve5k]

Grand Victoria had some roulettes in gold

 

[Max D]

Grand Victoria had some roulettes in gold

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I have some of those.... but for some reason they feel weird... I am wondering if they were soaked in water...

 

[gmunny]

I have a rack of Peppermill quarters from Reno that are gold with a black hot stamp.

 

[TheBigTater]

Lots of the fantasy chip lines have a base metallic gold chip, some in multiple denominations (Horseshoe Gardena $3, $500 - Casino de Mexico $200, $200K - Le Cove $1000 - I'm sure there's more).

I'll echo the words of warning, that color only looks good on unplayed/mint chips. Once they get put in play they turn into a dirty hot mess. But some folks like them so YMMV.

 

[gmunny]

While looking for pics for the best inlay thread, i forgot i have this nice oversized gold base chippe..

 

[upNdown]

Just noticed this listing
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Paulson-Le-...247083?hash=item28281660eb:g:C6MAAOSwnHZYa8Rr

 

[GoStumpy]

Just noticed this listing
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Paulson-Le-...247083?hash=item28281660eb:g:C6MAAOSwnHZYa8Rr