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Casino poker chips are special tokens representing money. They are fabricated with complicated graphics and edge spot patterns intending to make them difficult to counterfeit. The process used to make these chips is well guarded and expensive - typically done on high pressure compression molding machines.
Typical material of construction is not clay as is sometimes believed, but a ceramic material with clay added for texture and weight. The breakable, clay chips of the 1960s and 1970s are not currently manufactured.
These casino style chips can be bought for home games, but typical price is cost prohibitive at approximately $1 per chip. Modern home poker chips can be bought much more affordably (less than $100 for 500) and approach casino poker chips in look, feel, sound, and texture. They are typically manufactured with injection molding technology using ABS material. While clay composition varies by manufacturer, the clay content in these chips is typically very slight (1-10%) and does not affect the characteristics of the chip. The chip is molded around a metal slug (for weight) and comes in several colors.
Many designs currently exist for home poker chips. The most common design is the dice pattern, duplicated by virtually every poker chip producing factory. There are numerous styles of low cost home poker chips to choose from.
It is better to have a unique set (for security purposes) than to have the same set as others; this depends largely on your game and who you play with. If there is no security concern, having several people with the same chips is not a concern - in fact it may be better because it allows more people to play. If your game is high stakes, or with friends of friends and strangers, it might make sense to have unique, or custom chips.
Custom chips need not be anything more than a hot stamped or pad printed graphic on a common chip. An even less costly alternative is to add a sticker or a mark to the chips with a permanent marker.
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