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The Chip Board Archive 23

Argentina Chips - Casino Esquel chips FS


I recently did a bit of a road trip through the South of Chile and Argentina, and picked up chips from 3 small casinos. I offer some spares here for collectors. These chips are off the tables, and I'm pricing them just slightly over face. Add $5 for shipping from Chile using a tracking number and a bubble mailer, no matter how many chips you want from any of these postings. (This is my actual cost - I don't gouge on shipping.) Expect delivery to US addresses in about 2 weeks because of Chilean donkey-mail.

Casino Esquel is located in remote Argentina, as you enter Argentinian Patagonia. It is a small town, probably not visited by many people from North America. The casino was mostly slots, having 3 blackjack/Caribbean Stud poker tables (no progressive) and 4 Roulette tables. I was the only person playing table games at all, everyone else was on slots. The chips are standard hat and cane moulds, and are a bit odd - no denominations printed on them. These chips all exhibit quite a bit of table wear. Note also that they are different on either side.

The pale blues were 5 Pesos, the fluoro orange 10 pesos, the green 50 pesos, and the hot pink 100 pesos. They were the same chips in use at all tables, and the house chips on roulette. No denominations larger than 100 pesos visible. Max bets were 600 pesos (less than $100 USD)

5 Pesos chip (1 available) = $2
10 Pesos chip (10 available) = $3
50 Pesos chip (none available)
100 Pesos chip (1 available) = $18
Roulette from table W4 (4 available) = $3


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