Flat disk with check pattern

[Country Dirt Kid]

Flat disk with check pattern (Updated pics)



I found this thing in a farm field in a place that had plenty of square nails. All the nails have mismatched heads so I think this place is old. I see on the map that there was a farm there in 1872. In 1880’s the building disappeared off of the property. It looks like copper but I can barely make out shiny silvery color like it was chrome plated or something like that. The backside has a hole where you can see that the item is actually made up of two layers. It appears,to have been flattened.
Any ideas thanks

 

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[Reanm8er]

Say Tp, if you dug some of the larger trash signals around there you might luck out and find the bottom half of the die. This could and probably be a single use item. Perhaps a wealthy person lost a button off their European made garment. So he went to a jeweler or perhaps his friendly Mad Reanm8er, a commissioned him to take a shot at it. So the craftsman set about to make the bottom of the die using hand engraving tools and punches. He then put the bottom die in his vice and took a piece of sheet gold or perhaps gold lamee' and placed it as well as the copper slug over the die. He pounded soundly with his hammer and created the facing for the button. He may have made the rest of the button or took the short cut and soldered the facing onto the backing of another one.