Colonial button identification

[jml818]

This button is dated 1771. It’s a fairly thin and small button as seen. This past summer I found this 2nd battalion of Pennsylvania button in the same area. Proves the time period very well.
Anyone seen a style of button like this that is dated?
I’m still waiting for some of revolutionary war museums to reopen around here in Philadelphia so I can have a historian look at my 2nd battalion button. I believe it is something special.

 

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[DiggerKid2003]

That is a reale button. Just a colonial button based off the design of a reale. You can see the pillars and the date like on a reale. Can’t tell you exactly which coin it’s based off of but a really neat find.

 

[jml818]

Thanks diggerkid! I googled it i saw others. Mine even has the ss loop on the back.

 

[CRUSADER]

Without seeing the reverse hard to guess, but this coin imitations are normally one half of a cuff-link from the late 18th - early 19th C.