From the championship cup I proceeded to the coin making, establishing a decsent method for one. I finally found such a method and wrote a tutorial strongly involving PS. I'd much appreciate any ideas.
The present state is Rhino render which I find satisfactory.
The final image
http://www.savefile.com/redir/53371.jpg
The tute of how to do this can be freely downloaded here:
http://www.savefile.com/redir/53366.doc