Poker Chips
Poker chips are the identification of the casino and poker websites and rooms. Poker chips are also called poker tokens. Poker chips are also known as clay chips; however, this is a misnomer as the poker chips are not totally constituted of clay. The clay poker chips were in vogue in the 1800s.
To make the poker chips durable, the poker chips filled with clay are always mixed with synthetic substances. Nowadays, clay poker chips are not in use because they are brittle and rather expensive. All the casinos now use poker chips made from a mixture of acrylic, plastic and composite clay.
From 1930 onwards, the extra foil of metal came to be used to render the additional durability and also for security purposes. In 1940, the sets of poker chips were printed on their edges as well as on their central areas. A decade later, all the casino and poker sites started having customized poker chips that had typical logos, and designs of the respective casino sites printed on the sets of chips. Such designed poker chips started becoming collector's items. The casinos prevent counterfeiting by mixing percentages of kaolin or clay unique with acrylic polymer synthetic.