There is someone—maybe the same seller?—offering 30,000 Mr. Lucky chips @ $3K (as a Buy It Now item... Also listed as “make an offer”). That would be 30 cases, so the shipping would be substantial unless you could pick them up:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Collection-of-approximately-30-000-Mr-Lucky-poker-chips-/302576031266
This listing also has some better detail about the history of Mr. Lucky chips:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Poker-Chip...Red-50c-RARE-Custom-Poker-Chips-/181457322091
We started doing business with Lucky when he was still in New York before he retired to Florida around '98-'99. He still ran his casino supply business in Florida. He passed in early-mid 2000's and Bob Tabb took it over and he has since retired.
Lucky was a protege of Bugsy Siegel and was asked to come to Las Vegas with him but he didn't go (good thing).
He always struck me as simple and "old school".. and his prices were great. He did everything himself. And if you had a question about anything gambling related he had an earful of information including a complete history and a who's who along with a story! He wrote a little book about his life and I still have one around here somewhere.
I ordered these hot stamped. I think he did that for 10cents a side. To hear him talk I'm pretty sure he did those manually one at a time. (I also have some Roulette ones if interested).
These are lightly used and some are a little dirty but most are in excellent condition and were not used much. The edges are a little rough still so you know they were not played with much. That was one thing with Lucky's chips.. I am sure he made those one by one and the edges had some "burrs" and there are manufacturing marks on side and face.
The info above seems to indicate why you might be seeing what appear to be injection mold dots. I have never handled these chips, so I can’t speak to the quality. Per the info below, these may be quite light (~7g).
I have seen sites offer these as high as $3 each, which would in theory make this 30,000 piece set worth $90K. Not that one could get three bucks each in bulk, but...
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/molddesign_dice.htm
Not a registered casino mold. Rather recent vintage. A number of times in the 1980's I met Irving Cohen, who sold and rented these chips and gaming equipment from his home in Laurelton NY, a section of NYC in Long Island. (Irving , who was in his 60's then, said he ran junkets, claimed to have won a California gambling ship in a Las Vegas craps game, that the 1943 Cary Grant movie, "Mr. Lucky," was named after him, and that he started and ran the Las Vegas' Monte Carlo/Sans Souci/Castaways till he sold out to Howard Hughes.) Last I heard, he relocaterd to Florida. Bill Borland's World-Wide Casino Exchange, Las Vegas NV, was selling these 7 gram "durable plastic" (nice clay feel, anyway) chips in 1990, at least.
