✅ SOLVED Hat Badge? furniture tack or what? ROTC collar disc!

[CAP]

About the size of a nickel. Dug this in a curb strip in old part of town. Seems like I've dug one of these in the past elsewhere. Looks like tacks on the back. I don't know.

 

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[Tpmetal]

About the size of a nickel. Dug this in a curb strip in old part of town. Seems like I've dug one of these in the past elsewhere. Looks like tacks on the back. I don't know.

I think you are on the right track, as pins and prongs on the back usually indicated it was attached to leather or heavy fabric or something along those lines. normally I see these style pins with a backer to hold the piece on and usually a single pin on this size(they even have the detent rings on the pins that the backers holds onto), but the pins look intentionally bent down as if that was the method of attachment.

 

[pistol-pete]

If memory serves me, I believe it is a 1960 era ROTC rank pin from a uniform

 

[creskol]

If memory serves me, I believe it is a 1960 era ROTC rank pin from a uniform

You have a darn good memory! I am envious!

 

[dozer dan]

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[CAP]

Thanks pistol-pete, creskol and all that commented and concurred on this one!
Solved!