Button Identification

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I found this button today metal detecting. It is very thin and just short of 1 inch in diameter. GILT is written along the bottom, a crown is on the top, and stars are inscribed in a circular pattern. Is this a military button? What time period?
 

No, civilian and around 1820 or so.
 

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