You are right Jim... the first one was from Fort McDowell when Az approved Indian gaming. And I acquired more as the Gilas and Harrah's and others sprang up.

But sometime in the early 90's, I must have left Laughlin in a hurry, because I wound up with about 30 $1 slot tokens from the Colorado Belle.

And then there are a couple tokens from the Shooting Star (still have them) I got on a trip to the Midwest. I hit $300 on the $1 slot while my Dad was squirreled back in a corner playing nickels

A humble beginning I know... but "it's the journey, not the destination." Today I have well over 2000 chips, 100's of tokens (WHAT WAS I THINKING??) and somewhere around 500 duplicates.
I am only up to 1600_something in my database.
A WORD OF ADVICE - IF YOU THINK YOU'LL NEED TO INVENTORY YOUR CHIPS - start EARLY!