Three new chips for the Egyptian set. New Colors?

[Ghazban]

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25¢ - Blue - 39mm round - Ankh
$1 - White - 39mm round - Cartouche reading "Poker Oasis"
$5 - Red - 39mm round - Pharoah on throne
$25 - Green - 39mm round - Eye of Ra, the Udjat
$100 - Black - 39mm round - Winged Scarab
$500 - Gold - 39mm round - Nefertiti
$1,000 - Orange - 44mm octagon - Anubis
$5,000 - Royal Purple - 89mm Plaque - Tutankhamen (and more)

Ten

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Just a thought here-- why $1000 and $5000 for the top 2 denominations? With a $500 chip already in existence, a $1000 isn't really necessary. It seems that a logical progression for the new top 2 denominations would be $2,500 and $10,000.

[TenPercenter]

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25¢ - Blue - 39mm round - Ankh
$1 - White - 39mm round - Cartouche reading "Poker Oasis"
$5 - Red - 39mm round - Pharoah on throne
$25 - Green - 39mm round - Eye of Ra, the Udjat
$100 - Black - 39mm round - Winged Scarab
$500 - Gold - 39mm round - Nefertiti
$1,000 - Orange - 44mm octagon - Anubis
$5,000 - Royal Purple - 89mm Plaque - Tutankhamen (and more)

Ten

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Just a thought here-- why $1000 and $5000 for the top 2 denominations? With a $500 chip already in existence, a $1000 isn't really necessary. It seems that a logical progression for the new top 2 denominations would be $2,500 and $10,000.

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With a strict prgression of X5 (or X4) yes. But have you seen a $2,500 chip? Just doesn't seem right to me. $10k yes...

Ten

[Ghazban]

I've never actually seen a chip over $500, though I know they exist [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] I just don't like having a chip in the set that is only 2x the value of another chip. Maybe that's standard in casinos (I haven't a clue-- we're talking well above my spending limits here) but I just don't see the utility in a home setup. While I'd like to have a complete set, I think this issue might be enough to keep me from ordering any of that denomination (not a threat or anything; just telling it like it is).

Edit: just checked Foxwoods' home page-- they have $500, $1000, and $5000 chips. Maybe I just have to get used to the idea...

[TenPercenter]

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I've never actually seen a chip over $500, though I know they exist [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] I just don't like having a chip in the set that is only 2x the value of another chip. Maybe that's standard in casinos (I haven't a clue-- we're talking well above my spending limits here) but I just don't see the utility in a home setup. While I'd like to have a complete set, I think this issue might be enough to keep me from ordering any of that denomination (not a threat or anything; just telling it like it is).

Edit: just checked Foxwoods' home page-- they have $500, $1000, and $5000 chips. Maybe I just have to get used to the idea...

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I've never used a "real" chip bigger than a $100. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] What I meant, was in poker chip sets for the home. All the ones I have seen go $500, $1k, and $5k. I see that Foxwoods backs me up on that. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I am trying to keep the set both unique and "authentic." Unique because you'll never see another like it. Authentic in that if there were a TenPercenter Casino, these chips would fit right in. I don't know, I guess I've been looking at different chip sets for so long, it just seems natural to me to have these denoms. I'm even avoiding a .50 piece when one of the members REALLY wants one. It just doesn't fit in IMO.

Ten

[wacki]

Foxwoods has a $1,000 chip and it's orange. Everyone makes a $500 and a $1000 chip. Right now I use the James Bond $500 and $1000 chips at home. They both come in handy quite often. I don't see anything wrong with having both of those. If anything it makes the transistion easier if the game decides to move up in stakes. You don't want $2,500 chips. If you start using a lot of thousand dollar chips it's nice to have the denominations in a similar structure to the way they are on the sub-thousand dollar chips.

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Foxwoods has a $1,000 chip and it's orange. Everyone makes a $500 and a $1000 chip. Right now I use the James Bond $500 and $1000 chips at home. They both come in handy quite often. I don't see anything wrong with having both of those. If anything it makes the transistion easier if the game decides to move up in stakes. You don't want $2,500 chips. If you start using a lot of thousand dollar chips it's nice to have the denominations in a similar structure to the way they are on the sub-thousand dollar chips.

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That's a good point. Really, it's a simple math thing. I play a lot with my family, not just poker experts. I can see us in a tournament and my Mom trying to decide how much money 12 x $2,500 chips is. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] It's much easier to determine 30 x $1,000. (even for me!)

Ten

[Ghazban]

A quick thought on the color of the $5K plaque-- namely, does it matter? Since its such a radically different size and shape from the other chips in the set, its not so important to have a sharp color contrast. Sure, it'd be nice if it worked out nicely in the colors you've picked but if its difficult to work the theme and images into that color, it wouldn't be a big problem if a color closer to one of the other chip colors was used instead.

[TenPercenter]

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A quick thought on the color of the $5K plaque-- namely, does it matter? Since its such a radically different size and shape from the other chips in the set, its not so important to have a sharp color contrast. Sure, it'd be nice if it worked out nicely in the colors you've picked but if its difficult to work the theme and images into that color, it wouldn't be a big problem if a color closer to one of the other chip colors was used instead.

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I was thinking the same thing at first. (See the above post about using papyrus as a background). But I was convinced in keeping the bricks to keep them all together. If I'm gonna use bricks, may as well pick a hue.

I've already sent the design instructions to Chipco. We'll see how it looks when I get it back.

Ten

[Fightin' Engineer]

Ten,

I personally am very interested in getting in on this set. I think that your idea of making the $5,000 plaque a deep purple is the best way to go because (If I am not mistaken)in ancient times purple was the color of royalty because it was so expensive to make. I think it will contrast nicely with King Tut's mask

BTW--Love the vulture image for the $1000 chip as well and love the idea of making the 1k and 5k denoms unorthodox shapes in order to make them extra special.

[wacki]

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I personally am very interested in getting in on this set. I think that your idea of making the $5,000 plaque a deep purple is the best way to go because (If I am not mistaken)in ancient times purple was the color of royalty because it was so expensive to make. I think it will contrast nicely with King Tut's mask

BTW--Love the vulture image for the $1000 chip as well and love the idea of making the 1k and 5k denoms unorthodox shapes in order to make them extra special.

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I agree 100%. By the way purple came from grinding seashells and it was very expensive and time consuming to make due to the massive quantities of shells required:

The colorless dye is present in shellfish and in the hypobranchial gland of snails which was removed and by exposure to sunlight and air developed. The shells of species found were in 2 piles, 1. the banded dye-murex (Phyllonotus (Murex) trunculus), 2. the spiny dye-murex (Bolinus (Murex) brandaris), 3. rock shell or oyster drill, Thais haemastoma.