Paulson FEVIS chips, any info?????

joshuadalton · #1 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 10:41 AM

Does anyone know any background information on these chips? They are original Paulson TH&C casino chips with metal flakes and security features. The inlay says FEVIS on top, shows the denomination in the middle, and then says WIN WITH THE WIND on the bottom.
The seller I purchased them from claims that there were only 3300 produced, but I can't imagine that this is true.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks,
Josh

noelsarchs · #2 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by joshuadalton

Does anyone know any background information on these chips? They are original Paulson TH&C casino chips with metal flakes and security features. The inlay says FEVIS on top, shows the denomination in the middle, and then says WIN WITH THE WIND on the bottom.
The seller I purchased them from claims that there were only 3300 produced, but I can't imagine that this is true.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks,
Josh

I highly doubt whether they would produce only 3300 chips. If the $100 chip is gray as the picture looks in your other listing, those are definitely fantasy chips as Paulson never makes a black chip in the fantasy line, only for casinos.

joshuadalton · #3 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 10:59 AM

The 500's are grey, but the 100's are black. Also, I have never seen a fantasy chip that has metal flakes, black light security, and the micro dot security.

MeridianFC · #4 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 11:07 AM

Where the picture is?

joshuadalton · #5 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 11:16 AM

There is a picture on my thread in the Want to Buy section.

noelsarchs · #6 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by joshuadalton

The 500's are grey, but the 100's are black. Also, I have never seen a fantasy chip that has metal flakes, black light security, and the micro dot security.

http://www.ccgtcc.com/fakes.html
send some pictures of these to David Sprague and see what he comes up with...

joshuadalton · #7 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 11:23 AM

Here is another picture.

dolomite128 · #8 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 11:27 AM

This casino located on a boat in Massachusetts apparently still uses the $5 chips from the ones you posted a picture of. Weird....

http://www.chipguide.com/cgi-bin/sea....cgi?id=magled

Just adding to the confusion,

dolomite

joshuadalton · #9 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 11:35 AM

I'm on the next plane to MASS to cash these in.

furious_pete · #10 (**permalink**) 03-12-2006, 01:46 PM

I bought 3100 of these from eBayer arconeltd a little over three years ago. Apparently he sold 200 other chips to random people. He's the one who told me there were 3300 of them produced, I believe he bought them directly from Paul-Son back when they still had retail stores. If I recall correctly there were something like 200 $1 chips, 100 $2.50s, 1400 $25, 700 $100, 700 $500, and about 20 $1000 chips. I didnt receive any $5 chips and I didnt know they even existed until I saw the last post. When I called the AC Paul-Son store they confirmed that they sold about 3300 of these chips. I posted on thechipboard right after I got the chips and one of the members found some info about a FEVIS cruise line that never got off the ground in Israel. I dont know much more than that and I cant confirm the last bit. I included a picture of one of each of the chips I had at one time, they are all sold now - more than 1200 of them were shipped to soldiers in Iraq.