Silver_Fiend
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I welcome all thoughts, musings, critiques, and insults about this idea!
While researching and playing with chip designs, I have shifted my thinking away from clays and towards ceramics. I came up with a design idea and it seems like it should work a lot better as a custom print rather than an inlay. I am pondering the concept of an old west theme. My moniker around the webs always has something to do with silver, I love old coins, and live in Oklahoma. Putting those together I came up with a "Silver Dollar Saloon" theme. Plus there is a very real Silver Dollar Saloon I like to visit in Leadville.
Anyway, my thought is to have a 2 faced chip (heads and tails), with the face being a common design, apart from the denom added. The reverse would be from actual coins with mods. Replacing "U S of A" with "Silver Dollar Saloon", plus maybe some other tweeks to designs. The print would be a drawn version of each coin instead of an actual image so that its cleaner, clearer and easier to adjust. Since colors are important, especially in stacks, I was thinking a thin border of colors and design either carried across the rolling edge, or possibly color/denom/pips around the edge. I made some mockups to get a feel for it, although I had to use what I could find on the googles, so please ignore the colors or the fact that they are sluggos. One good thing about the concept is that I can match coins to chips for whatever denom structure I like (5c/25c/$1/$5/$20 or 10c/50c/$2.5/$10/ either $20 or $50)
I'm still not sure whether this concept is going to go as a cash or tourny set, but my concept for the larger denoms would be plaques (although those things are damn $$$) It works perfectly into my concept that historical bills were actually "silver certificates" (100, 500 & 1000) redeemable for silver dollars.
If I end up going this route as tourny chips, I'll probably have someone take existing gold certificates and mod them into $5000 and $20,000 values.
While researching and playing with chip designs, I have shifted my thinking away from clays and towards ceramics. I came up with a design idea and it seems like it should work a lot better as a custom print rather than an inlay. I am pondering the concept of an old west theme. My moniker around the webs always has something to do with silver, I love old coins, and live in Oklahoma. Putting those together I came up with a "Silver Dollar Saloon" theme. Plus there is a very real Silver Dollar Saloon I like to visit in Leadville.
Anyway, my thought is to have a 2 faced chip (heads and tails), with the face being a common design, apart from the denom added. The reverse would be from actual coins with mods. Replacing "U S of A" with "Silver Dollar Saloon", plus maybe some other tweeks to designs. The print would be a drawn version of each coin instead of an actual image so that its cleaner, clearer and easier to adjust. Since colors are important, especially in stacks, I was thinking a thin border of colors and design either carried across the rolling edge, or possibly color/denom/pips around the edge. I made some mockups to get a feel for it, although I had to use what I could find on the googles, so please ignore the colors or the fact that they are sluggos. One good thing about the concept is that I can match coins to chips for whatever denom structure I like (5c/25c/$1/$5/$20 or 10c/50c/$2.5/$10/ either $20 or $50)
I'm still not sure whether this concept is going to go as a cash or tourny set, but my concept for the larger denoms would be plaques (although those things are damn $$$) It works perfectly into my concept that historical bills were actually "silver certificates" (100, 500 & 1000) redeemable for silver dollars.
If I end up going this route as tourny chips, I'll probably have someone take existing gold certificates and mod them into $5000 and $20,000 values.