Counterfeit Chips?

Does anyone know what countermeasures are taken by the casinos to prevent people from making their own chips? Just curious.

I cannot speek for all casinos in the entire world, though in my country, each chip has got a code. I think the expensive chips have some kind of computer chips in the middle, which the casino can read with a special laser. Might be rare, and expensice for the casinos, but I am pretty sure they exist.

Each casino's also got their own logo on the chips. Since there are special manufactors, they can control the market of chips, and are responsible for not copying casino chips.

Regards, Robert V. Lux

I had that idea long time before, but my
wife said, it is not allowed to take
them into the casinos and play them.
But one thing will be true, it will
be much less punished than to
conterfeit real money.
I think there are specialist's
maybe in Asia ore Italy who do that.
rainer

Did you hear what happened to the Horseshoe a few years back?

They put a thousand $5000 chips into circulation. (5 million worth)

They stopped using them when they realized that they had cashed in over 7 million in $5000 checks.

There are many countermeasures used to prevent counterfeiting.
First take any high denomination chip and put it under a black(UV)light. You will see glowing logos and symbols appear which are used to verify that the chips are real. If you see a tiny dot that glows if is usually a security feature which contains micro printing only visible using a loupe or magnifier of some sort.

I have also heard that yellow and chocolate chips may contain electronic tags which could be scanned to verify chips are authentic. Although this is very possible, I don't know of any casino which is actually using this technology at present.

Although this may not carry as heavy a penalty as counterfeiting money, it could certainly bring fraud/forgery charges.

Good Luck & BE CAREFUL!!!

Phil.

The black chips at Boomtown (in Verdi, NV) appear to contain very small bar codes. I haven't investigated further.