My all time babies are the Carson City Nevada Artichoke Joes.
But again it’s what something means to someone… not what everyone else thinks is the best. I was curious if a casino ever paid to have nickels made… sure enough a few did, heck they even made 2 different runs of Pennie’s! Anyways when I saw the peanuts on the front of the chips… my grandfather always would get drunk for our poker nights and call
It “playing for peanuts” also those nickels quickly became one of my favorite chips… I started buying singles and said no matter what I would build a rack… that was years ago. Anyways microstakes cash, but a cash set.
My second favorite,
When I turned 21 here on the east coast my father took me to AC and we often would go up on weekends and play at Trump Taj, or Marian… also Trop and a few others but mostly the Taj. When I got into chipping my dad handed me 2 - $1 chips and a snapper and said hey I know you’re into chips now, I found these from back in the day. I thought… how could ai not build a set around that! How special. No I haven’t done the math but 40 -50k invested. We use the snappers as quarters or fracs
One of my top 3 favorite chips ever made
Never a huge house mold fan but the chips Paulson made for AC back in the 90s were literally lead biscuits! Lol
You can’t be a chip collector and not build an original Cali set… my 3rd favorite is my 1973 Santa Rosa Jokers Wild chips
The original Fracs are hands down my favorite chip ever made…
This beautiful picture was caught by Ms.
@FordPickup92 in natural fading evening light. Simply radioactive! But the original $1s are all bike tires, and typically we all play $.25/$.50 everywhere we go, so I decided to expand and include the quarters and $1s from Henderson JW
Set didn’t have a Hundo so planning to
Use the Silver Seven $2
THC drop chips gotta maintain 414 spot pa
From there we head to Hot Stamps, there are a few original sets of hot stamps from casinos, though many of us in the hobby build mix sets of hot stamps. My inspiration came from the Treasure chest $.50 frac and the Eldorado $1… I knew they needed to be paired and the rest kind of fell
In place over the years
Far from the best picture… but what I have available.
From there an opportunity came up for
THC $5s in 414 spot pattern and Maryland flag colors. I love red demons so That’s what i call this one “red denoms”
I only knew of 2 casinos that ever used the 214 spot pattern, Silver City and Fitzgeralds… I knew a few people working on these $1s and they all gave up on their quest to help me pull this one together, text book spot progression.
Others
My first build when joining the forum, Aces Casino
RHC oversized inlays. Paragon Original quarters.
An original B mold
CPC set designed by
@p5woody for
@detroitdad … but lucky enough to live with me for a while… great quarter pie set that plays soo very well!
I built a huge set of 2005
CDI tournament chips and had to buy enough cash chips that I decided to build a set and not use the $25 but relabel a $20 chip
I do plan to relabel or over label the NPS to make quarters.
Nothing original but nice classy set and nearly mint, the
RHC Indiana Grand casino
Rivers casino quarters are a temp paring
What collection could be complete without a beautiful
TRK set
Still working on fracs for Santa Yasabel set
Micro stakes
BCC chips are awesome
And several others but that’s a mix.
Best of luck with the hunt,
Fellow Chipper Ben
