My very first came in 1947 when I took a 14th birthday $5 bill and bought 200 plastic chips to the horror of my mother? But my first collectable chip came in a home game when the host gave out our chips; plain clay but one of my blue ones had a flora design. I asked if I could keep it. He said yes and I was on the way: ne desin chip that grew to over 1,000s designs, ivory and casino chips until aging and moves ended my collecting in 2019.