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Originally Posted by _GUN_ I wonder how that site acquired those. |
If I'm not mistaken, after Binion was killed, his hourd was discovered, which consisted mostly of silver, including silver dollars that were once used for slot machines. He also had chips and the famous Million Dollar display of $10,000 bills!
The hourd was bought and the buyers had sets of silver dollars and chips placed into presentation slabs and included certificates of authenticity and sold them. Several of the $10,000 bills were sold on eBay and the better ones were sold elsewhere.
Since slabbed chips are generally rejected by the organized elements of the chip collecting World (a long story) not many of the slabbed chips made their way into collecting circles. Compounding the "slabbing" was that collectors figured that the hourd really did have thousands and thousands of what were once valuable and hard to find chips.
In the cycle of these things, the chips are now being sold off by the box and based on condition alone, the better chips will probably top out (or bottom out) at around $10!
Again, I caution people not to put big money into ANY Horseshoe chips!!!
Jim (Gaming Ore) Follis
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