What mold is it? That is one of the first questions a person is asked when they start to describe a chip. A good part of your education when it comes to casino chips, will be to learn about molds. And there are a LOT of them.

$5 Fremont Hotel & Casino FARO Chip Las Vegas, Nevada (H-Mold-4th Issue) NEW #1114. Whatever happened to the molds? We have always been frustrated with home market chips for their lack of molding. Almost every home market poker chip is just a basic smooth disc. Authentic clay poker chips in casinos are beautifully molded works of art. Unfortunately, most home market chips are uninspiring smooth duds.

One of my favorite molds is the rectangles and hearts mold shown here on the Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn $5 chip from my collection. One of the most popular molds is the arrowdie. No matter what area of interest a chip collector might have, they always seem to want at least one chip with the arrowdie mold in their collection.
Quite a few collectors try to obtain an example of every mold known. That will keep you busy for a while!

The best place to see and learn about molds is at Robert Eisenstadt's great Web site. The link to the mold design section of his site is below. Make sure to bookmark that page, you will refer to it numerous times over the years, as you acquire more and more chips for your collection.

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