More 43mm love

Well, I got a few 43mm baccarat chips coming.

#1 was the Dunes Bac $5 from Spinetti’s. wow is this thing sharp.

#2 will be a Caesars Palace Bac $5 from ross.

#3 is a plain jane Riviera Bac $5. (I won that auction, woo hoo)

Still looking for current house bac chips. (MGM, Mandalay Bay, etc.)

Hope to get to the magic 8 number, like the 43mm $1000 orange collection I started a few months ago.

Things I know that I didn’t know before (Paulson molds)

There’s nothing like getting these things in your hand, because a scan won’t show you depths and levels of detail your hand and naked eye will pick up. Two years ago, I had no clue about these things. The only casino chip I had ever experienced in hand were Hard Rock Casino chips at a Blackjack table, and the lighting was less than best. (RH&C) Now, well, let’s just say, I know certain details that seem pointless but may exist for reasons that are unstated.

Long Hat and Cane Paulsons have an inlay indentation that is less deep than a Short Hat and Cane Paulson’s center indentation, which gives the LH&C’s a tendency for spinners.

The 43mm Inverted Hat and Cane mold’s hats and canes at the NESW locations are deeper than the 45 degree locations.

The Reversed Hat and Cane mold’s hats are quite susceptible to edge chipping due to the hat indent locations.

The Roulette Mold has one of the words “ROULETTE” closer to the outer edge than the other “ROULETTE”, which lets edge chipping at the tops of the letters, “R, O, E, both T’s and the last E”. (Why this off centered detail was allowed is beyond me, unless it was an intentional security feature.)

Personally, I don’t like RH&C’s. The only benefit I see is the ability to use Super Grand inlay sizes, which I don’t like anyway because they get design intensive.

LH&C’s need to be checked for spinning on both sides if you expect to play with them.

Roulettes rock too, but are usually lighter than normal.

Any IR&C I can get my hands on for less than $15 is a bargain in my eyes.

I love a minty new SH&C.

It’s a time tested workhorse. You could say it’s like a Honda CIVIC, perfected model year after model year.

Nothing like racks and racks of SH&C’s.

I would love to see statistics as to which mold is used the most in a quantity comparison for current casino use.

I would also love to see the spec for all the molds to see why all these design anomalies exist. But who am I to be such a needy, grabby knowitall?

Oh, and House Molds rule. (Note: I only have one House Mold in quantities; the Caesars Tahoe Resort. If anyone wants to send me mass quantities of House Molds, feel free to contact me to rectify this bias in casino house molds.)

Waitaminit, I have two racks of Caesar Palace house mold blue $1’s… so the above statement is not true.

If anyone were to ‘donate’ a rack of minty fresh $5’s from there, that would be nice (for research purposes only, I swear)