Among them, according to organisers, will be “a number of old and exceptional high-class commemorative jetons that evoke interesting histories of rich periods in time”.

And next year, says Schmitt, he hopes to raise money to bring the artefacts themselves to ICE.

“My jetons remind me of different times and places I’ve visited throughout my career in the casino business. Of course, some currencies no longer exist, like the franc, Deutsche mark and peseta, so this gives you a feeling of yesteryear and what the industry was like before the Euro,” he said.

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