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What your casino chip is made of, and its multiple purposes!

What do casino’s comprise of? Roulettes, slot machines, poker chips and some jazz, of course!

Casino chips or Casino tokens are small discs used instead of currency in casinos. They are coloured metal, plastic or clay that are compressed tokens of various denominations. They are used primarily in table games and slot machines. Casino tokens are also widely used as play money in casual games. 

History of chips:

The ancestors of modern casino tokens were the counters used to keep score in the card games Ombre and Quadrille. In 1752, French Quadrille sets contained a number of different counters, known as jetons, fiches and mils. Unlike modern poker chips, they were coloured differently only to determine player ownership for purposes of settling payments at the end of the game, with different denominations differentiated by different shapes. 

In the early history of Poker during the 19th century, players used any small valuable object for the purpose of playing. Early poker players sometimes used jagged gold pieces, gold nuggets, gold dust, or coins as well as ‘chips’ primarily made of ivory, bone, wood, paper, and a composition made from clay. 

Purpose of chips:

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