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Originally posted by: ddd228
Yes,I have seen the $2.50 chips B-4 at the BJ tables. Common,aren't they?
I know that you are the chip GO-TO guy.
The ones at the roulette tables are "tokens".
Just 1's,5's & 25's are all I see at the tables.
Casinos can make anything they want. Correct? Past the $1 "chip".
$37.50 chip? Sure,why not?
Colors? What chip would be PINK?
2 1/2 peso chip? https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-1-2-Pesos-Casino-De-Bravaro-Casino-Chip-/262473988962?hash=item3d1cab3b62:g:ZEUAAOSwZQxW4vvb
REALLY?
The casinos can have anything made that they want, but in Nevada, gaming wants a valid use for chips that have an actual cash value before they'll approve it for use. A few Nevada casinos have $2, $3 or $4 chips that are drop chips only used in their poker rooms for the table rake. Fitzgerald's in Reno had an $11 chip made strictly for use on a table game called Red Dog. Quite few Nevada casinos were issuing $8 chips as Chinese New Year commemorative chips for a few years. None of them had any game that needed $8 chips for normal use and gaming put a stop to that. The only real reason for the existence of $8 chips was to sell them to chip collectors. Gaming doesn't think any cash value chip has a reason leave a casino, and they started rejecting many/most commemorative cash value chips a few years ago. The casinos got a little greedy, issuing many cash value commemorative chips in limited numbers, knowing that few would actually be used for gaming. Some casinos would have new limited edition (LE) commemorative chips every few weeks! $5, $25 and $100 LE chips only cost the casinos about $1.30 each to have made. LE's were a lucrative casino revenue source for a number of years...
Tokens are made of metal. Some chips have metal centers, cores or inlays, but overall they are clay, a clay composite, injected plastic or ceramic. Roulette chips are chips, not tokens, and with the exception of jetons used on a French roulette table (like the $1,000 Paris jeton in my avatar), have no face value. They usually have a number or letter that designates which roulette table within a particular casino those particular chips are used on.
A majority of $2.50 chips are pink. Chip colors related to specific denominations are set by state gaming regulations in some states like New Jersey and Colorado - $1 chips are primarily white, $2.50 chips are pink, $5 chips are red, $25 chips are green and $100 chips are black. Nevada has no such color standards. Most Las Vegas $1 casino chips are primarily white, but $1 chips from the Mirage and Sam's Town are blue and $1 chips from the Orleans are light brown.
