I've been reading through here and there, don't know that I saw anything related to this (apologies if there is a thread somewhere);
As someone just starting to get "further" into chip collecting (for me right now it's the Mapes) - I'm surprised that certain Mapes chips seem to be harder to find. For example, the blue $5 chips and red $25 chips seems to be more common than the yellow $1 chip. And as someone that's sometimes come home from the casinos with chips in my pockets - I would have guessed that the $1 chips would be more abundant, based on several factors (value of the dollar at the time, people not being worried about cashing in a couple of $1 chips, chip production numbers, etc).
Is/was there anything that would account for this I'm not thinking of? It makes sense that $100 chips would be harder to find.....but the $1 chips?
As someone just starting to get "further" into chip collecting (for me right now it's the Mapes) - I'm surprised that certain Mapes chips seem to be harder to find. For example, the blue $5 chips and red $25 chips seems to be more common than the yellow $1 chip. And as someone that's sometimes come home from the casinos with chips in my pockets - I would have guessed that the $1 chips would be more abundant, based on several factors (value of the dollar at the time, people not being worried about cashing in a couple of $1 chips, chip production numbers, etc).
Is/was there anything that would account for this I'm not thinking of? It makes sense that $100 chips would be harder to find.....but the $1 chips?