When i dug the cotton tag i was at a plantation and was certain it was a slave tag till i cleaned it up....Ohh well i'll keep looking, i know they're out there....Ohh yeah, the silver ring ( third row down, third ring over) os a 1944 quarter some one pounded with a spoon and then drilled it. My father told me he used to do this and now i believe it...You can still read the writing inside the ring..