Just some thoughts in my opinion:
I hear your complaints but I've always considered that the overarching goal of this forum was to get people to learn about numismatics. If you have no interest in going or try to shoot down attempts that try to get you to go outside of your collecting comfort zone. You're most likely not going to learn anything new. Worse yet when someone tries to shoot down or belittle a topic they run the risk of shaming/discouraging others from contributing that otherwise may have and everyone loses in that scenario. This may be a coincidence but participation actually seemed pretty strong until a complaint was made. Luckily it ended strongly though.
I'm also rather surprised that no one submitted one of the myriad of humble wooden nickel varieties or a nonmetallic tax token. Most coin collectors tend to have one or more of those lying around somewhere.
Anyway, I digress, since entries seemed to be a little sparse this round. I'll try and pick up some of the slack and maybe I can show some of you guys something new. Below are some other nonmetallic coins and tokens that I happen to have photos of from my collection. Hope you enjoy them. Please let me know if you have any questions for me.
Roman Egypt Green and Yellow Glass Tessera Obv: Bust of Nike, Rev: of Hercules, c. 2nd Century AD, 1.8g, 18mm x 16mm
1895 China (Bamboo) 200 Wen (200 Cash) Token Light Mountain Bank 91mm x 11mm x 4mm
(1916) Germany Cardboard Notgeld 10 Pfennig, Grünhain, Obv: DIE STADT GRÜNHAIN, municipal arms at center, Rev: 10, denomination within double circle, 21.2mm
William Miller Ltd, Portsea. Bone 2 Pence Token 33.5mm, William Miller Ltd. was a Royal Navy contractor, in the late 19th century, operating canteen boats which supplied goods to Royal Navy ships in various harbors.
1913 Keeling Cocos Islands (Ivory Plastic) 25C KM-TN3 Serial Number 1620
(1861-1865) Undated Troy NY S-820-P5, Black (Vulcanized Rubber) Civil War Token One Cent Fred. A. Plum.
1933 Blaine Washington, Depression Script, Blaine Relief Association, Wooden 5 Cents WA52-.05 Serial # 702
ND Token Food Stamp Credit 5 C. National, Green Plastic
Ok, here's the final tally:
Oriole with 5 points for an exact match!
Pepactonius with 3 points a nonmetallic coin
Crazyb0 with 3 points for a nonmetallic coin
Finn235 with 3 points for a nonmetallic coin
spruett001 with 1 point for a nonmetallic token
Thank you to everyone that participated. Oriole is the Winner! for an exact match! I hand things off to you. Congratulations!
I personally don't mind if you give your turn to jbuck as long as it's ok with him and everyone else.
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Posted 12/27/2017 2:24 pm
. While I can appreciate trying to change it up for something a little different, I personally think an exact/approximate match point system on multiple criteria allows for more participation as opposed to a scale based on a single aspect of a coin. You can always add a fourth condition to match above and beyond date, country, denomination and make it out of 8 points. Or even use three different criteria all together with points for exact/approximate match. Some that come to mind are size, weight, composition, mintage, location minted. This is what made the game fun for me. Trying to find a coin in my collection to get the closest match ever if it was only one or two points. That's just my opinion. 
