Strange question

[sushidingo]

I know the definition of a relic but what exactly does everyone here consider to be a "relic"? Would someone consider a beer can from the 70's a relic?

 

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[boogeyman]

Just google me! That'll pretty much explain it! Naw seriously my take is anything older than the 70s. I may be revising that soon. I keep going into antique stores to see what going prices are and keep running across toys etc. I've owned, and they keep using the antique label So I guess I'm an antique now........ Some people seem to think anything with a little rust is a relic, at least in their pricing.

 

[jeff of pa]

yes a beer can would be a relic.
I refer to
everything other then coins as relics

at times I could refer to myself as a relic.

a coin can be a relic. though I don't refer to coins as Relics I have seen others do so

dictionary.com.
noun
1. a surviving memorial of something past.

2. an object having interest by reason of its age or its association with the past: a museum of historic relics.

3. a surviving trace of something: a custom that is a relic of paganism.

4. relics.

• remaining parts or fragments.
• the remains of a deceased person.
  

5.something kept in remembrance; souvenir; memento.

6. Ecclesiastical. (especially in the Roman Catholic and Greek churches) the body, a part of the body, or some personal memorial of a saint, martyr, or other sacred person, preserved as worthy of veneration.

7. a once widespread linguistic form that survives in a limited area but is otherwise obsolete.

 

[RustyGold]

I could be entirely wrong but Relics are somehow tied to religion and artifacts are are just that, artifacts.

 

[against the wind]

If it's old and you can't eat it,, it's a relic.