Why are casino chips valuable?

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I get they’re not easy to reproduce but isn’t it easier to counterfeit chips than money? How would someone that steals chips use them if they’re only valid in the casino they came from?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

They have value placed on them cuz they come from real money. When you go to a casino and you start playing games with chips you have to buy chips. Whatever money you have in chips is only worth something in that casino. As far as faking them goes, a company that makes them probably wouldn’t make you a set of chips with another casinos name on it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The high value chips do have security features in them just like money making them hard to counterfeit. A casino may also change its design whenever they want making it harder to counterfit and steal. You are right that chips are only valuable in the casino they comes from. In order to cash in a chip you need to enter the casino and exchange the chip for cash. This is also an added security feature as the casino does monitor who comes into their casino, how much they gamble and how much they cash out at the end of the night. If people are conturfiting them then a casino would be able to notice who is able to cash out a lot more chips then they bought while they still did not win much by gambling.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Their value is what the casino says it is, and a casino’s chips are only good at the casino that minted them.

Casino chips have a variety of security methods to defeat counterfeiting- UV markings, RFID technology, and elaborate designs to discourage or frustrate any attempt to counterfeit them. On top of that, casinos are insanely surveilled, which would make passing the chips on the floor almost as difficult as counterfeiting them in the first place.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s the same as with all monetary things. There are concepts, ideas, mechanism and all sorts of stuff that makes it really hard to counterfeit.

Also it’s easy to see if you actually won at games or just come in at random times to get money.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It might be easier to make chips that look the part than money the looks the part. But making the chips is only part of the issue.

Cash can be used almost everywhere. So if you want to slowly introduce fake money, you can do it in many many places.

Casino chips have to be used at that specific casino. So if you want to pass fakes, you need to walk right into the home of the people you’re cheating.

Also if you want to make it worth your time, you need need to either fake high-worth chips, or fake a lot of low-worth chips. But walking up to the cashier to do either of those things will get lots of attention.

The casino might ask you when you were there to win/buy these chips? You can make up some dates but when you don’t show up on any of their hundreds of security cameras on those days, they will get suspicious.

Also, for obvious reasons, the higher the worth of the chip, the more tech goes into those chips like RFID etc.

Anonymous 0 Comments

You can probably (not?) get away with counterfeit low value chips. You’re on camera with facial recognition, though. High value chips are tracked and have security features that will get you caught when trying to cash them.