I have no knowledge of any chips disappearing in shipment to a customer, Gene. The point is that chip makers are used to controlling inventory and shipment of casino chips. No different if the were shipping to collectors, provided they were set up for it. Again, I doubt very much there's enough incentive for them to begin a program like this. But it could work. It works for the chip services [g].

Not sure about your question on Franklin Mint. They did it different ways. Some sets were shipped complete, containing one each of the tokens FM made that year. Some were done by subscription and tokens were shipped as produced, with an album or case sent at completion. I was not a subscriber at the time and have only seen completed sets, plus occasional correspondence with subscribers. A fixed number of sets was produced and production quantities were published. I imagine that casinos were paid face value plus a royalty, or possibly given their mint tokens free as compensation.