It's just a chip...
The real mccoy here is plain old money...
You'll see the difference in the Greek Translation. What is said about it in Greek is to "Aggressively take hold of the coin...". Obviously, that is the coin of the Roman Empire.
It is simply saying "those who are eager to have money".
Nothing wrong with having money, what makes it wrong is to aggressively take hold of it because if you do, you can't be a faithful servant of God, you can't be a good steward. If a brother or sister needs help, you will deny them help because of your attachment to money. Or you would give them help but it won't be enough because you won't be able to give more.
Beware the denarius...............
Matthew 22
18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "why make ye trial of Me,
ye hypocrites?
19 Show me the tribute money". And they brought unto Him
a denarius.
20 And He saith unto them, "whose is this image<1504> and superscription?"
21They say unto Him, "Caesar's".............
John 11:48
"If-ever we may be be letting Him thus, all shall be believing in Him.
And
shall be coming the Romans and they shall be taking away of Us and the Place and the Nation
Revelation 6:6
And I hear a voice in midst of the four living-ones saying: "a measure of grain/wheat a
denarius and three measures of barleys a
denarius, and the oil and the wine no you should be injuring"."
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
Proof that Matthew 24 was fully fulfilled in 70 AD!
Also see: Rapture refuted
The day on which Titus encompassed Jerusalem, was the feast of the Passover. At this season multitudes came up from all the surrounding country, and from distant parts, to keep the festival and the city was at this time crowded with Jewish strangers...........
Meanwhile
the horrors of famine grew still more melancholy and afflictive.
The Jews, for want of food were at length compelled to eat their belts, their sandals, the skins of their shields, dried grass, and even the ordure of oxen. In the depth or this horrible extremity, a Jewess of noble family urged by the intolerable cravings of hunger, slew her infant child, and prepared it for a meal ;........
While famine continued thus to spread its destructive rage through the city, the Romans, after many ineffectual attempts, at length succeeded in demolishing part of the inner wall, possessed themselves of the great tower of Antonia, and advanced towards the Temple, which Titus, in a council of war had determined to preserve as an ornament to the empire,