Poker chips? edit: lol so i saw this first and didn’t click on the original… of course it was poker chips. seems to be my week for posting the thing that had already been posted (at work happened twice on thursday)
Quacks Bags full of Geekup upgrade potion ingredients satisfy me hugely for that shuffling sound. A long standing thing for me this that has a good history of plastic ‘crystals’ in a bag. Examples include Murano and the version of Love Letter my brother has, Adventure time. Really jiggling the bags to make the plastic tinkle off each other is wonderful. Quacks has the advantage of having justification between each draw for the sound.
Not plastic but tipping the wooden blocks from a copy of The Climbers has good aural satisfaction.
I actually love the sound of plastic*, and the feel of it in my hands. I’d choose it over metal in all cases, leather and wood in some.
*Very much depends on what type of plastic.
[EDIT to add] I’m struggling to think of specific examples at the moment, but some cardboard tokens can really have a nice clack to them.
[Double EDIT spectacular] Men at Work has those wonderful girders that really have a spoke-ish clink to them that comes out when they fall, or even rub. Love em.
I have the potion ingredients in coin capsules. First played a friend’s copy where they’d done this and decided that using just the cardboard would be too disappointing after that