PNY Part 2 - President Casino New Yorker - Casino Chips (1 Viewer)

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This is the second portion of a three-part thread, check out Part 1 and Part 3.

If there needs to be a correction or addition to this information, please post below or shoot me a PM and I’ll update the OP.


Original Paulson Chips Made for the President Casino New Yorker:

The chips were manufactured on the MD-76b Hat & Cane mold (Reverse Hat & Cane) with giant inlays with the exception of the $1,000s, which were on the 43mm MD-76c oversized mold with giant inlays.

The chips include several Paulson / GPI anti-counterfeiting measures uses. These include ultraviolet markings, alpha dot (which with a 30x magnifier reads nine lines of the Paulson name), and metal security flakes in denominations $25 and up.


$1
full

  • Base Color: White
  • Edgespot Colors: Purple & Moss Green
  • Edgespot Pattern: P7 (418)
  • Landmark: Empire State Building
  • 30,000 made
$2.50
full

  • Base Color: Pink
  • Edgespot Colors: Light Blue & Desert Flower
  • Edgespot Pattern: P3 (Quarter Pie)
  • Landmark: Battery Park
  • 5,000 made
$5
full

  • Base Color: Royal Red
  • Edgespot Colors: Black, Metallic Gold & Orchid
  • Edgespot Pattern: P28
  • Landmark: Radio City Music Hall
  • 35,000 made
$20
full

  • Base Color: Yellow
  • Edgespot Colors: Cherry & Moss Green
  • Edgespot Pattern: P14 (3D18)
  • Landmark: Chinatown (Pell Street)
  • 5,000 made
$25 (primary)
full

  • Base Color: Lemon Green
  • Edgespot Colors: Daisy & Blurple
  • Edgespot Pattern: P19 (8A18)
  • Landmark: Statue of Liberty
  • 25,000 made
$25 (secondary)
full

  • Base Color: Forrest Green
  • Edgespot Colors: Indian Blue & Plum
  • Edgespot Pattern: P23 (4DS18)
  • Landmark: Statue of Liberty
  • 25,000 made
$100 (primary)
full

  • Base Color: Black
  • Edgespot Colors: Horizon Blue & Peach
  • Edgespot Pattern: P31 (4TSA18)
  • Landmark: New York Stock Exchange
  • 12,500 made
$100 (secondary)
full

  • Base Color: Black
  • Edgespot Colors: Horizon Blue, Lime Green & Orange
  • Edgespot Pattern: P27 (3TA316)
  • Landmark: New York Stock Exchange
  • 12,500 made
$500 (primary)
full

  • Base Color: Purple
  • Edgespot Colors: Sherbet Green & Hot Pink
  • Edgespot Pattern: P32 (6D18)
  • Landmark: World Trade Center Twin Towers & Brooklyn Bridge
  • 5,000 made
$500 (secondary)
full

  • Base Color: Plum
  • Edgespot Colors: Fuscia & Daisy
  • Edgespot Pattern: P22 (4V418)
  • Landmark: World Trade Center Twin Towers & Brooklyn Bridge
  • 5,000 made
$1,000 (primary)
full

  • Base Color: Blaze Orange
  • Edgespot Colors: Day Green, Coffee & Bahamia Blue
  • Edgespot Pattern: P18( 2V2W)
  • Landmark: The Statue of Prometheus, Rockefeller Center
  • 1,500 made
$1,000 (secondary)
full

  • Base Color: Orange
  • Edgespot Colors: Almond & Metallic Gold
  • Edgespot Pattern: P22 (4V418)
  • Landmark: The Statue of Prometheus, Rockefeller Center
  • 1,500 made
Most of the chip counts, landmarks & other info were taken from the original PNY reference thread:
http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/threa...w-about-president-new-yorker-pny-chips.56171/


Chip Security Features

Ultraviolet Markings (Top Hat on $1-$20, “PAULSON” on $25-$1,000)


Alpha Dot - picture of chip showing alpha dot at magnifications of 1x, 8x, 40x and 100x



If you'd like to see tons and tons more photos of these beautiful chips, check out our PCF PNY pron thread:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/president-casino-new-yorker-pny-pr0n-post-yours-here.4020/
 
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Updated OP with corrected colors and edge spots - big thanks to @ovo and @BGinGA :) Also added a couple of additional photos of the alpha security dot, courtesy of my son's microscope. (y) :thumbsup:

Note that while I've done a ton of research on these, I wasn't on the boards when the chips surfaced and don't claim to be an expert - I built these reference threads to be a work in progress - so if you have additional information or see something you think should be corrected, please feel free to comment or shoot me a PM, you won't hurt my feelings :D Also note for the colors of the original chips, we don't have the original order sheet so they are my best guesses (done with a little research & input from others). So if you have a full color sample set and confirm a different color shoot me a PM with a picture.
 
Hello, maybe I'm looking in all the wrong places, but can someone explain why there is a "primary" and "secondary" of the same denominations? Why wouldn't they have just made all the same color and spot patterns?
 
Casinos have a different secondary set of chips in reserve if the primary set is compromised (forgery, theft, etc). They need to be different because of this purpose.
 
OK, thanks for that information. That is quite interesting that casinos would be willing to invest that much money into a duplicate set of $25's, I guess I understand the $500 or $1000. Lots of sunk cost, and lots of chips to sit in a vault corner, especially if the casino plans to use only the primaries until they get compromised.

I wonder if that is still the case with newer casinos today, with say MGM National Harbor casino?
 
With CT down. Do you have this information anywhere else?
Yep, check out these 3 threads:

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/pny-part-1-president-casino-new-yorker-history.19264/
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/pny-part-2-president-casino-new-yorker-casino-chips.19266/
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...-new-yorker-supplemental-chips-add-ons.19267/

;) - all of the information from that CT thread has been recreated here.

But..... if you're really hard up to explore the old blue wall CT thread, I did a web archive of that thread:
https://web.archive.org/web/2017040...w-about-president-new-yorker-pny-chips.56171/
 
Bought a new scanner last year, just getting around to updating the pics in the OP. The colors are much more representative of the actual chips now. I also updated the supplementals in Part 3 (and the scans in the chip DB)
 
@Irish thank you for your work! I have fallen head over heels for these chips. Your history and work adds to the great appreciation and love for them.
 

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