Raffle

CONGRATULATIONS Sue Crawford for winning the August Raffle!

Your financial support is essential to our work, and deeply appreciated. Our monthly raffle is one way that we generate funds to support educational programming, care and conservation of our collections, facility upkeep and improvements, and essential administrative tasks.

August Raffle: Megalodon Tooth 

About Our Prize

August Raffle: Megalodon Tooth

This month, we are raffling off a beautiful, genuine Megalodon tooth. This tooth is from the apex predator of its time, the Otodus megalodon shark, which is now the official State Shark of Maryland. This upper right lateral tooth specimen is from the Miocene epoch, Choptank formation, and was found near Calvert Beach in Calvert County, MD. The tooth is from an old collection, and its availability has been diminishing. This shark tooth is over 4.25 inches in length; we can estimate the animal’s size by assuming 10 feet of shark length per inch of tooth length. This pristine tooth is incredible with perfect serrations, a very well-defined root structure, and a retail value of $450.

We would like to add that this fantastic tooth is a generous donation from Mark and Jeanette Bennett, Fossil Club members and generous donors to NHSM. We encourage you to visit their website at https://marksfossils.com.  

Raffle ends AUGUST 31, 2026 at midnight.

Raffle Information and Rules

1. For every $5 ticket you buy, your name will be entered once (i.e., $5=1 entry, $10=2 entries, etc.)

3. The cut-off date to be entered is AUGUST 31, 2026 at midnight.

4. The winner will be chosen at random and announced on the NHSM website and social media on September 1, 2026. The winner will also be notified via email.

6. The prize is for specified items only. No substitutions.

7. The winner may pick up the prize at the museum or have it shipped within the continental U.S. at the winner’s expense.

8. NHSM officers, directors, and employees are ineligible to enter the Raffle. Immediate family members of NHSM employees (defined as: spouse, siblings, parents, children) are also not eligible to enter or win. Any entry from an ineligible person is void.

9. Raffle ticket purchases do not qualify as tax-deductible contributions, per IRS Publication 526.

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