[OnTheButton]

I won an auction off of eBay thinking I was buying this chip:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6287008677


I was perfectly happy with the price and everything else. The wife and I are Golden Nugget fans so even if I got ripped off, I would still be happy with having something vintage from the Nugget.

However the chip that arrived was this one:

(Picture from Silver State Treasures)

Which appears to be a 60's issue instead of a 70's issue as I expected.

The chip is in excellent condition (a little dirty but in a case)...

Anyone think it is worth more than the $17.00 I paid for it? Did I just make a score from someone that didn't know the difference?

Thanks for any info chip geeks!

[_GUN_]

What arrived is a quarter-pie from the old Burt company (now ASM).

I've bid on a few of them before.

U.S. Guide has a value range estimate of $25-60 depending on condition. It's an 11th issue chip. Plenty of these sell in the $15-20 range, though. You did just fine for yourself.

[Harlequin011]

Originally Posted by OnTheButton

I won an auction off of eBay thinking I was buying this chip:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6287008677


I was perfectly happy with the price and everything else. The wife and I are Golden Nugget fans so even if I got ripped off, I would still be happy with having something vintage from the Nugget.

However the chip that arrived was this one:

(Picture from Silver State Treasures)

May not be apples to apples but this one is listing for $1650.00 right now.

From the auction

[palmimports]

Originally Posted by _GUN_

What arrived is a quarter-pie from the old Burt company (now ASM).

I've bid on a few of them before.

U.S. Guide has a value range estimate of $25-60 depending on condition. It's an 11th issue chip. Plenty of these sell in the $15-20 range, though. You did just fine for yourself.

Every day on here I learn something new- you mean there is established pricing for poker chips such as one would find with, say, coins?
I really need to get out in the real world more often- I really had no idea chip collections were on par with other let me say collectable investments for lack of a better term

[WINTERS]

[jamby]

TCR, another resource.

[_GUN_]

Originally Posted by Harlequin011

May not be apples to apples but this one is listing for $1650.00 right now.

From the auction

That's actually not even the rarest piece on that mold. As far as I know, this link has the most valuable one.

http://www.casinorarities.com/crhof/...nugget7th.html

If you compare all the stuff done in the 60s on the GN house mold, it would have to be considered as one of the most aesthetically pleasing sets ever.

http://www.silver-state-treasures.co...s/goldnugg.htm

[Midnight Rose]

Originally Posted by palmimports

Every day on here I learn something new

For me, that's the understatement of the year. I thought I was doing something with my piddling collection of current casino chips and my "treasure find" of two chips my brother-in-law bought in the 1980s. Then I stumbled onto this part of the forum by accident. Why did I have to go and do that?

I swear, I hate this place. It's gonna cost me soooo much time to go through all these threads - and sooooo much money, when I find that one chip I just can't live without...

[jamby]

One chip?

Trust me, when all is said and done, there will be hundreds of chips that you just can't live without.

-jamby

Originally Posted by 4aces

It's gonna cost me ... sooooo much money, when I find that one chip I just can't live without...

[99%evil]

Arrowwood has one of those chips, he loses it every time we play. He left it one day and I scanned it with som eother chips...it's the hostage chip