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This is from my eBay auction description:
The real McCoy --rare, actual prop casino chip used in 1989 James Bond movie "License to Kill." See picture above of this chip in the opening credits of movie! You will receive the chip in an easily opened and closed airtite plastic display holder.
DESCRIPTION: Up for action is one $10.00 prop gambling chip that was actually used in the 1989 James Bond movie "License to Kill." Unlike the commemorative James Bond-License to Kill-Casino de Isthmus City chips that were made after the movie came out and have been flooding eBay, the chip auctioned here was specially ordered by the production company for this movie and was used in the movie, or at least is from the same set of chips made for and used in the movie. It can actually be seen as the same as the one used in the opening credits (see the second picture above). The chip is the same size, weight and quality as an actual casino chip. The design is the same on both sides of the chip. These chips can never be made again (see below for explanation).
I am the only person selling these rare, real prop chips. I have only three of them left. You might be interested in looking at this defunct web site page that was selling James Bond Memorabilia. Click this link. Scroll down that page to see the License to Kill listings. The chip in my auction here was advertised on that page as follows!: " US $ PLEASE MAKE OFFERS (Estimate Value 1899.00 US $ )." (Note: I have never seen the other prop chips on that page. I have never seen them for sale.)
opening credits: To refresh your memory, the movie starts with British agent/best man James Bond, played by Timothy Dalton, driving with U.S. drug enforcement agent Felix to Felix' wedding, but drug lord Sanchez is spotted landing by plane in the Bahamas to take back his erstwhile girl friend. Bond and Felix jump into a Coast Guard helicopter, capture Sanchez, fly to the wedding and parachute down for the wedding ceremony! Then, six minutes already into the movie, the opening credits begin rolling and we see the famous naked girls in silhouette, a roulette layout and chips You see all this in the second picture above. Note the $10 chip, the exact same one as auctioned here. The names appearing in the second picture are some of the minor cast members in "License to Kill;" Caroline Bliss, for example, played Miss Moneypenny.
Casino De Isthmus City : Once the movie resumes, Sanchez escapes to his sanctuary in Isthmus City, where he runs the fictional casino in the fictional city. Bond pursues, pretends to be a high roller and plays in the casino.
spurious prop chips: The Paulson company (the largest casino supply company in the world and owner of their distinctive and famous hat and cane rim mold) made the chips for this movie. Incidentally, note the $10 denomination of the chip and the red color of the Casino de Isthmus City logo. After the movie was released , Paulson manufactured and sold commemorative home poker chips with the logo in green, and no $10 chip. Those chips were sold for 65 cents each in the Paulson retail stores. Ten of them are pictured below. Today, Paulson still makes the chips, but without the hat and cane mold (that mold is reserved today exclusively for real casinos). Also, today's Paulson chips don't include the $10.00 denomination and have the logo in green. ... ... ..... Other chip manufacturers are also making Casino de Isthmus City chips (apparently there is no copyright on that name), but, of course, without the hat and cane mold (Paulson has the proprietary/exclusive right to the hat and cane mold). Also, these other manufacturers have never made $10 ones; nor have they ever made the logo in red.
Robert
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