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Message:: [QUOTE="saltysam-1, post: 2078365, member: 23368"](Thanks Jello for responding. In the meantime I thought I would post this). You need some luck when saving and playing with casino chips, which is sort of my combined hobby along with U.S. currency. I had the good fortune of finding original artwork from Paulson Mfg. who supplied many Las Vegas casinos with their gaming chips. My home base was always the Tropicana for about 30+ years before I ventured out and tried others. This artwork pertains to the Tropicana and relates to a special four chip edition developed for the 1998 winter Olympics. I have never seen original artwork for sale by Paulson or the casinos. I was able to purchase this last year. This year I was able to find, from other sources, the four chip designs made to complement the entire story behind their issue. Originally only two events were to be shown but it was decided to increase it to four events but cut the quantities in half. The four are: speed skating, ski jumping, boxing and slalom.[ATTACH=full]386138[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]386139[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]386140[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]386141[/ATTACH] . Since only 500 of each piece was produced, to find them all is unusual, and to group them with the original artwork; extremely lucky. Consider the different sources, the time frames involved and being from my home base casino; I can't imagine attaching a value to them. As a current ad saying goes: "Priceless".[/QUOTE]