Button?? Whait is it

[Jpsconstruct]

Found near the Savannah GA River.
About the size of a dime.
Any takers?

 

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[Dug]

I'll take it.

 

[Jpsconstruct]

Thanks Dug but really wondering what it is?

 

[HAPPYCAMPER]

Assume thats the back?...whats on the front?

 

[Dug]

Relatively good shape flat button missing the shank. You must have dug it out of a dry area. Not a typical backmark with the sunburst and the S. Assume the front is plain which is why you didn't post a pic of it as well?

It would probably date in the early 1800s.

 

[Jpsconstruct]

Thanks. It has nothing on the back. It was a friends son wh found it. Is it worth anythng?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Button-collectors call that type a brass 1-piece "flatbutton." When the backmark on these says "plated" it always meant the button's front had silver plate. Also at that time in history, "gilt" was the term for gold plating. The version you found dates from 1800 to the mid-1830s. We diggers find brass 1-piece flatbuttons by the handfull along the east coast, from Georgia to Maine, so they are worth about $1 apiece at "relic shows" here in Virginia... but one with a very unusual backmark can bring as much as $5 from a button-backmark collector.