the dice I got with my original copy of Basic red box D&D were red and green plastic (some were red others were green) and the numbers had to be filled in with the included white crayon. (the d20 was numbered 1-20)
they started chipping the first time I rolled them.
one of my friends gave me a bunch of old dice, that he got at a con where it was $1 for a handful. His hands were huge and he ended up getting like 2 pounds of dice by reaching into the bucket and palming them just right. They are about as good a quality as you can imagine, and many have obvious indentations on the faces of the dice from where the plastic warped during cooling. Some of them roll pretty well actually.