Enormous silver (faced) hand engraved flat button, 1809 Swiss Nepoleonic medal, more

[Scrappy]

Enormous silver (faced) hand engraved flat button, 1809 Swiss Nepoleonic meda...

December is a great month of buttons for me. I hit an old spot with my daughter for an hour and dug mids and lows. Mid-60 degree WX made things very enjoyable. We thought we had a 1/2C copper but that was just a big thick flat button. Also found a 1809 Swiss 1/2 Batzen. Turns out some circles consider this a Napoleonic medal (some info: Switzerland - 1809 - 1/2 Batzen). The silver faced button is SILVER DOLLAR sized - so far my largest.

A undated fat Cent and a couple more IHP's round out the group.View attachment 1246683View attachment 1246684View attachment 1246685View attachment 1246686
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Enjoy.

Steve

 

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[The Patriot]

That is an amazing find there...Beauty!

 

[Brian W]

That is so cool...I like finding things you have to do research on...Congrats

 

[Scrappy]

That is an amazing find there...Beauty!

Hey thank you. I really want expecting to find anything from the spot today, so all this surprised me. The original plan was just some Papa/daughter time.

 

[qaela4]

Icing on the cake, enjoy it while you can!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Nice digs Scrappy, how did the daughter do swinging the CTX? Where is the button? I especially wanted to see that big thang.

 

[BigWaveDave]

never seen one of those before... awesome.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Very unique find Steve. Wonder how something like that turned up at your site??

 

[Scrappy]

Nice digs Scrappy, how did the daughter do swinging the CTX? Where is the button? I especially wanted to see that big thang.

the button was in there. I just have very large hands (my ring size is 14.5). Here is it compared to my 8 reale

 

[Scrappy]

never seen one of those before... awesome.

Wait what? My attention span is limited while watching the game buddy. GO PATRIOTS! We need a win brother

 

[ironhorse]

That dandy sure is a dandy!
Pretty cool old coin too, I'm all about something different and that sure is!

 

[Old Dude]

Holy smokes! That button is a dandy!

 

[pepperj]

Very cool finds Congrats on the button and the coin.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Wait what? My attention span is limited while watching the game buddy. GO PATRIOTS! We need a win brother

Back to normal.

 

[CRUSADER]

can't see the button picture?

 

[Scrappy]

Very unique find Steve. Wonder how something like that turned up at your site??

If I went through the scenarios my head would explode. So far just this year I found a few obscure coins:

1790 Dutch East India Co. 1 Duit
1830's Keping from the Far East
And then this 1809 Swiss find

Strange, but I'm willing to bet more of these obscure tokens and coins would be found if people dug more low signals. This came up as a common Lincoln as did the others.

 

[gwdigger]

Some interesting stuff there. Really like that button.

 

[Scrappy]

That dandy sure is a dandy!
Pretty cool old coin too, I'm all about something different and that sure is!

Holy smokes! That button is a dandy!

Very cool finds Congrats on the button and the coin.

Thx fellas. What I'm curious about is its age. It came from a more modern site, but the reason I was digging there is the site borders a colonial road. Now I know it's not a colonial button and my guess would be 1830's or '40's, I just want others opinion.

Cheers

 

[Scrappy]

can't see the button picture?

I posted another pic at the top in case the first upload was haywire.

 

[thrifty76now]

Wow,some cool digs there Scrappy.