Gene --- your best efforts notwithstanding, you may never get in the "last word" on this subject! :-)

I'm confused, though. When I spoke to the Nevada Gaming Commission Enforcement Division rep last Friday, he told me, in response to my very specific questions on the subject, that roulette chips are NOT covered by the chip/token regs. The language quoted would seem to preclude such coverage, since they have no fixed value (unlike table chips & tokens). And how all that other stuff (mentioned in your later message) fits in, who knows?

Kinda makes me glad I don't play roulette, 'cause if I did, sure as stuffing, I'd want to collect the chips...perhaps at great risk.

Maybe we collectors (whose importance to the casinos is, unfortunately, vastly overrated by most of us -- Larry Flynt drops more on a single hand of blackjack than a casino can make on an entire issue of 1000 $5 limited edition chips!) can talk the casinos into making extras and simply letting us remove them from roulette tables with a buy in high enough to insure a profit on the chips. Would certainly eliminate all the problems.