🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Bar button type.

[edlynne]

I believe this is a revolutionary bar button, not the coin. It doesn’t look like the military bar button I seen onlineI I would like to find out about this particular style. Thanks in advance. 22.8 mm in size.

 

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[cw0909]

nice find
found a few here,, but I can't see if yours has a decorative edge maybe close

c. 1775 Rev. War Era, BAR CENT Style Button - May 17, 2009 | Early American History Auctions in CA

American RevolutionScarce Revolutionary War Era "Bar Cent" Style Button c. 1775 Revolutionary War Era, "Bar" Cent Sty... on May 17, 2009

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went here to see if it was a coat or shirt button, looked around didn't see one

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[edlynne]

nice find
found a few here,, but I can't see if yours has a decorative edge maybe close

c. 1775 Rev. War Era, BAR CENT Style Button - May 17, 2009 | Early American History Auctions in CA

American RevolutionScarce Revolutionary War Era "Bar Cent" Style Button c. 1775 Revolutionary War Era, "Bar" Cent Sty... on May 17, 2009

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went here to see if it was a coat or shirt button, looked around didn't see one

Results – Search Objects – The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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thanks for links. It seems some of the bar buttons were tombac on the first site. I am including a close up of the edge of the one I have. It seems like the pattern in between the bars runs vertical also. Found a continental navy button in same field and wondering if the bar button was military.

 

[Steve in PA]

I found one very similar at a Rev War fort and home site in SW PA. The site was active until about 1790. You can see the button in this picture. The G. Washington cufflink was found at the same site. I believe it is a patriotic button from the same era as the rattlesnake and stars button, which is late Rev War to just post Rev War.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

What surprises me is that your buttons back is flat and yet shows no evidence of a backmark.
I notice the button Steve found has no marks either, but came from a different mould.
Dave

 

[cw0909]

from reading around supplies were short most of the time, that could explain the variations
in size and material, and may have been manufactured in different states for that states soldier
at the colonial williamsburg foundation, the label text for the bar coin mentions

These coppers are in fact similar to Continental buttons without eyes; on the one side are thirteen stripes
and on the other U.S.A., as was usual on the soldiers buttons. If congress does not take the establishment
of a mint into consideration, and carry it into effect, it is probable that the next coin which may come
into circulation, as we have a variety of them, will be the soldiers old pewter buttons, for they are nearly
as valuable as the coppers above described, and hardly so plenty."
bar coin

USA "Bar" copper

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Continental Army Officer's Thirteen-bars Button

Continental Army Officer's Thirteen-bars Button

Button bearing thirteen bars united by a common encircling border.

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[Steve in PA]

These Bar buttons are not listed in Don Troiani's books on Revolutionary War buttons. There is still debate as to their usage.

 

[edlynne]

thanks, have not seen many examples and appreciate help. Surprised it wasn't mention in Revolutionary button book.

 

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