Welcome to Unique Poker Chips and thank you for your interest in our National Reserve MicroCash™ Banknotes and Certificates. Our MicroCash™ products are a new and exciting addition to our poker and gaming accessories that we believe will bring a new level of interest and entertainment to every home game.

Being that they are so new they have left many with questions and wondering how or even IF they will fit into their games. We always attempt to answer any questions you have about these, or any other Unique Poker Chip products. Feel free to submit a question via our Contact Form or email us directly at spade@uniquepokerchips.net.

Questions, issues or concerns that are voiced more often or whose answers provide widely useful information will be posted here in our FAQ section of the site.

MicroCash™ Banknotes and Certifcates are a series of FRACTIONAL bills conceived and designed to accomodate Micro-Stake poker games. Their function is one of complete novelty and will not suit everyone's playing styles.

Inspired while watching a televised High-Stakes cash game program, the concept is simple: If you are not playing high stakes games but still want to experience the "big money" atmosphere that high rollers enjoy, by playing with actual cash on the table, then MicroCash™ Banknotes and Cerificates are the means to do so.

MicroCash™ Banknotes and Certificates are not intended to replace all the poker chips in play. An example of how they may be used is ...

Your $15 buy-in game with 5¢/10¢ blinds provides a chip distribution including ten $1 poker chips per player. Instead you might hand out five $1 poker chips and five bricks of 5¢ Grover Cleveland Gold Certificates to each player.

Simply put, MicroCash™ Banknotes and Certificates are intended for Micro-Stakes cash games. That's why there are no National Reserve $1, $5, $20, or $100 denominations. If you are playing a cash game where you wanted a stack of bills to represent a $25 or $100 value, then the obvious thing to do IS to use $1 or $5 bills and create your own 'bricks'.

If you are instead playing a 5¢/10¢ game, where the largest poker chip on the table is a $5 chip, but you still want the feel of a high stakes game then National Reserve MicroCash™ Banknotes and Certificates are designed to fill that need. You wouldn't replace a $1 poker chip with a single $1 bill, or stack five $1 bills to replace a $5 poker chip. These just aren't substantial enough. But you can stack 100 National Reserve MicroCash™ 1¢ notes or twenty 5¢ Gold Certificates together to create a $1 marker that has some real "presence". A $1 bet has never looked so good!!

At Unique Poker Chips we always do our best, and continue to work on ways of making all of our products available at as affordable a price as possible. That being said, regarding National Reserve MicroCash™ Banknotes and Certificates specifically ...

• They are NOT legal currency, therefore the face value does not presume to represent any tangible cash value. If they did then it would be counterfeiting!!
• Just as with poker chips, the face value of National Reserve MicroCash™ Bank Notes and Certificates does not reflect the cost to manufacture them. One would not expect to pay 5 cents to manufacture a 5¢ poker chip or $100 for a $100 chip! The actual COST of National Reserve MicroCash™ Bank Notes and Certificates includes paper, printing, time to design, and hand stamp each note (each bill is individually numbered) with paper and printing being, by far, the largest factor.

NOTE: We researched similiar products in the market and found a variety of "funny money" and novelty products with prices ranging from $1 - $10 per note. These, however, do not amount to much more than an existing USD bill that was scanned in and badly Photoshopped. National Reserve MicroCash™ Bank Notes and Certificates designs are all UNIQUE, individual, 100% original, at a fraction of the price!

Shipping calculation is an ongoing struggle. We have recently made adjustments to the way shipping is calculated for National Reserve MicroCash™ Banknotes and Certificates. The truth is, it DOESN'T cost that much to ship them, particularly when purchases include multiple "bricks". Naturally, as you bundle more bricks together in a single order the less it costs per "brick". We are currently working to devise a formula that will more accurately reflect the true the shipping costs of these MicroCash&trade products.

Until completed, however, options ARE available ...

• We ALWAYS refund excessive shipping charges. Unique Poker Chips does NOT use shpping and handling charges (or transactions fees) as a means to make money. This is, in our minds a deceptive means of generating revenue and as consumers ourselves, a practice we do not endorse.
• You can place an order with Unique Poker Chips directly, via email (spade@uniquepokerchips.net), and the total bill, including REAL shipping charges, will be calculated and a PayPal invoice sent to you.

Unfortunatley, this is currently the case. However a set of MicroCash™ Euro's is in the works and will hopefully be available sometime this summer. If this concept continues to pick up interest then we would like to design a set of Canadian and Australian MicroCash™ Banknotes as well.

As with ALL Unique Poker Chip designs, National Reserve MicroCash™ Banknotes and Certificates have received a Federal Copyright and are therby protected under relevant Federal Copyright laws.