"I thought you might like to see the actual fakes that were sold into our hobby as real chips. "

As I have quoted you above, it leads the reader to believe that the chips in your scan (at least in the first scan and implied of the other two scans) are in fact brass core chips that were sold into the hobby as real chips.

Is that what you meant to say, or are the chips scanned the ones you got from Whalen and you are showing them to us as like-examples of chips sold into the hobby as real chips? Ostensibly to show us what the fakes can look like.

Thank you,

Jim Follis
On-Line Communications Director
CC&GTCC