[Poker4eveR]

I was thinking of a 1 chip & 1 coin denom low stakes cash set that I believe someone was doing here already. Mixing coins with chips on purpose. Anyhow using quarters didn't seem like a good idea because of there size and easy findings, plus you can get .25 cent chips pretty easy. So half dollars came to mind since they are bigger like a chip (30.5mm x 2.1mm) and will stack to some degree too. It also increases the capital of the set where quarters don't add much. Not a dime (I mean half dollar) a dozen like quarters so that would work for doing .50/1.00 blinds with a $25 buy-in and enough capital (see below). Of course the blinds are kinda big for the buy-in but then it should tighten the game up...LOL.

So I found a half dollar rack but not sure how many coins it will hold. I'm pretty sure at least 100, which is exactly what I would get. So you would have your racks along with your poker chip case. Reason for getting a nice $1 chip is because of the real money. Would go better with the coin I think. I was bored, what can I say?

100 x .50 (half dollar coin)
500 x $1 Casino chip or nice home chip

600 coin/chips for $550

[Big Mike]

That's a pretty cool idea. I wouldn't do it because I'd be worried about the coins getting scratched or showing fingerprints or something. I could just see myself sitting there polishing them all at the end of the night. : )

[tastic]

Actually, my local casino runs a 3-6 limit w/kill using only $1 chips...and the dealer has 50cent coins that get mixed into pots as the rake is taken...I usually toss the 50cent piece back at the dealer as a tip but some people keep them as they play and have stacks of coins and chips in play...

Originally Posted by Poker4eveR

I was thinking of a 1 chip & 1 coin denom low stakes cash set that I believe someone was doing here already. Mixing coins with chips on purpose. Anyhow using quarters didn't seem like a good idea because of there size and easy findings, plus you can get .25 cent chips pretty easy. So half dollars came to mind since they are bigger like a chip (30.5mm x 2.1mm) and will stack to some degree too. It also increases the capital of the set where quarters don't add much. Not a dime (I mean half dollar) a dozen like quarters so that would work for doing .50/1.00 blinds with a $25 buy-in and enough capital (see below). Of course the blinds are kinda big for the buy-in but then it should tighten the game up...LOL.

So I found a half dollar rack but not sure how many coins it will hold. I'm pretty sure at least 100, which is exactly what I would get. So you would have your racks along with your poker chip case. Reason for getting a nice $1 chip is because of the real money. Would go better with the coin I think. I was bored, what can I say?

100 x .50 (half dollar coin)
500 x $1 Casino chip or nice home chip

600 coin/chips for $550

[Poker4eveR]

Never really thought about how the half dollars would look or how I would want them to look.

Some other positives are very secure unless you have dirt bags who go to the bank to get half dollars and add them to the game. So if you have a nice $1 chip then people would be wasting their time. Half dollars cost less than a nice home .50 cent chip. Though your starting coin/chip count would be 30, there is a chance for more chips on the table later in the night. Then I checked the measurement of the rows in my 650 chip case and 100 would fit perfectly (around 5 to spare for room to get them out) in place of one row of 60 chips. Half dollars are a little smaller than acrylic spacers. Half dollars weigh 11.1-11.4 grams.

[Poker4eveR]

Without any $5 chips you would need a lot of $1 chips for a 3/6 game, especially a kill game. This set would work nicely for a 1/2 limit game.

[KenProspero]

Another nice thing about this, if you ever get tired of using half-dollar coins in your game, you can sell them to the bank for "real money" for exactly what you paid for them

[noelsarchs]

Why not use half dollars AND silver dollars? After all, a silver dollar is the exact same size as a chip and also at a buck each are actually less expensive than a chip anyway.

[poislb]

Interesting, I never thought about using coins....I could of saved thousands of dollars. I would have used pennies

[erikk]

Originally Posted by Poker4eveR

Some other positives are very secure unless you have dirt bags who go to the bank to get half dollars and add them to the game.

Umm why are people referring to security with regard to the half dollar coins? If someone sneaks a half dollar "chip" into the game he's paying $.50 for it and gaining (wait for it...) $.50 in the game. Now if you were using the half dollar coin for a $50 chip in the game I could see it but that's not what you're talking about here.

[Poker4eveR]

Originally Posted by noelsarchs

Why not use half dollars AND silver dollars? After all, a silver dollar is the exact same size as a chip and also at a buck each are actually less expensive than a chip anyway.

I figured trying to get 500 silver dollars for the set would be kinda hard. You can get nice chips for less than $1.