What is a Jeton (1 Viewer)

[scbill88]

I have seen thus term used here but they just look like chips to me. What’s the difference between a jeton and a chip?

 

[kaimat]

Think a plastic chip with a raised and rounded edge that makes stacking them impossible.

According to Google, jeton can mean different things, but for chippers, jetons are like the image below:

 

[Klobberer]

French word for token.

 

[TheDuke]

Plastic chip with mother of pearl look.

More common in Europe.

 

[puglia82]

More common in Europe.

Jetons are currently used in fewer and fewer casinos, usually mixed with plastic chips

Last summer I was in Portugal: they used a mix of jetons and chips

Campione it's the only casino where just jetons are used (in two series: euros and swiss francs)

 

[detroitdad]

 

[scbill88]

Thanks all. I always thought Europe used those rectangles plaques like in Casino Royale. Very cool by the way I loved the sound when they were being stacked. I bought some plastic ones just for fun.

 

[mipevi]

Jeton is plaque’s little sister.

 

[dkellerd]

Do people stack jetons like we do chips?

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

They suck in terms of stacking. Like trying to stack loafs of bread.

 

[Chipandchair]

Round plaques

 

[moose]

Isn't amazing that in 1962 they predicted the technology which exists now to try things on digitally online?

 

[Tommy]

Round plaques

 

[TheRealTeddyKGB]

You can blow them over when stacked

 

[mipevi]

Do people stack jetons like we do chips?

Yes. I don't have any issues stacking, but they don't stack like clays because they are smooth and light. Having larger jetons helps. There are also newer (BG) J3 jetons that are shaped more like chips, like the middle one below.

 

[puglia82]

Do people stack jetons like we do chips?

they are stackable, but very slippery

In casinos, jetons are usually put in rack (baccarat, poker, blackjack...), or placed in rows (french roulette)

Jetons racked at a UTH table in Campione

Jetons and plaques on rows at french roulette tables

(Portoroz, Slovenia, 1978)

(Hamburg, old jetons an plaques in Deutsche Mark)

(Old jetons from Venice, Italy)

 

[joker80]

They are terrible in poker. No likey

 

[allforcharity]

In the modern use sense, a jeton is basically a plaque that's shaped more like a round chip, though they do come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I don't think they were meant for traditional stacking except in very small heights.

 

[Tienou59]

they stack badly but they are so pretty