[Johnny6Card]

Pardon the obvious ignorance (if you can't see it you can smell it).

I found these chips. They are solid blue and yellow with bulls around the edges, like the Paulson top-hat and cane. Any clues? "Casino Miami, Miami FL

Flea market find. Any offers and/or information is appreciated.
Thanks
J6C

[Gaming Ore]

J6C,

Nothing comes to mind based on what you have stated. But a picture is worth ten thousand words. Do you have a scan?

Jim (Gaming Ore) Follis

[Johnny6Card]

Here is an image of both chips. Thanks again
J6C

[Gaming Ore]

I am checking on this. In the meantime, I'm thinkling it's a poker room at a Dog Track. Give me a few hours...

Jim

[Johnny6Card]

Jim,
It could be that... However, Florida law prohibits anything but $1/$2 pot limit at the dog tracks...so, my guess is that they might pre-date that legislation as casinos used to be legal here. Just a thought.
J6C

[rolandshoffinc]

The card rooms do have tournaments from time to time and I am thinking they are a tournament chip.

[X-Files]

The chips look like Chipco Unicorns.

http://www.chipco.com/unicorn.htm

[rolandshoffinc]

Originally Posted by X-Files

The chips look like Chipco Unicorns.

http://www.chipco.com/unicorn.htm

They are also made by the Gamblers General Store which I believe is ASM.

Unless chipco bought the mold.

[X-Files]

I thought they have always been Chipco. Gamblers probably bought from Chipco. I did not think they made chips at Gamblers.

[Gaming Ore]

And the answer is................

"Casino Miami was a day cruise boat out of Miami sailing behind the
Dupont Plaza Hotel. It sailed for about a year and during that time they
enrolled in a credit card program called IGT. In this program you
charged either $100.00 or $250.00 to your credit card and in the case
of $250.00 they charged you $187.50. Instead of giving you live chips
they gave you chips that could be played but not cashed in. If you won
you got a cash able chip and your IGT chip back. IF you lost you lost
the chip and if you had any left over at the end of the night you took
them with you. Casino Miami had 2 different IGT chips the blue $10 and
Yellow $25."

My thanks to longtime, CC&GTCC member Mark Lighterman, of Florida, who has kind enough to share the above information. Accordingly, the two chips pictured would be termed as NCV's (No Cash Value) chips. NCV's tend to be valued at around $5, unless there is a specific reason for them to be valued higher. (Like knowing that they are all gone because a ship sank, or that they were all destroyed (and witnessed) or????)

Mark did not indicate any exceptional value to these, but an interesting find just the same.

EDIT: Mark advised values are: $25 - $12-$15 $10 - $8-$10

Jim (Gaming Ore) Follis