Finding out the scale of Slem's first batch of chips wasn't difficult.
Each casino produced at least two hundred million chips. With nine casinos, plus the ones that produced more, at least one billion chips would be circulating on Slem City's market.
In other words, this was a huge market where one could stick a hand in at any time and anywhere!
While everyone else was out relaxing and having fun, the leader of the Fake Chip Team had already dealt with most of the anti-counterfeiting measures he could see.
Now, the only thing left was figuring out how to make the gold adhere and fuse with the other materials—or at least look as though they had fused.
Firm, secure, natural...
As long as he could achieve that, he could consider starting to make and use large-denomination chips.
At present, high-purity natural crystal was not cheap anywhere in the world, but it was not excessively expensive, either.
Producing a one-thousand-dollar chip cost roughly two hundred dollars, with crystal and gold accounting for the largest share.
But that was not the final cost, merely the price of the raw materials.
The manufacturing techniques and processes were not simple, either, but all of that could be solved. In other words, by dismantling the chips from Slem's major casinos, he had already found the path he needed to take.
The initial investment might be rather large—for example, purchasing some specialized engraving tools.
The raised and recessed designs on Slem's large-denomination crystal chips were inside the crystal. Through a tiny hole less than two millimeters wide, the necessary content was engraved into the crystal's interior.
Things like various numbers and words.
Then, different-colored metals and gold were used to fill the carvings layer by layer, ultimately producing a chip with a smooth exterior but