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[coin hunter]

Found this in a field where I have found horse shoes , Large cents from early 1800 and a Spanish Real from 1724. Any idea what this could be. It does have a little brass areas on it where i must have hit the target. Not solid brass but a light weight metal. View attachment 60897View attachment 60898

 

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[sutphin]

NOT SURE,BUT SWEET FIND

 

[Tpmetal]

Looks like part of a civil war two piece belt buckle to me, if it was the other piece would have circled it and would have resemble a wreath.

 

[Tpmetal]

Early Militia Buckles and Plates - Hanover Brass Foundry Reproduction Military Belt Plates

 

[Tpmetal]

If so EPIC find

 

[trapperart]

No help here but congrats

 

[CRUSADER]

I think it looks 19th C pressed copper/brass & is the tongue to a buckle. My gut thinks civilian in a Military style, but I await the experts.

 

[vpnavy]

I moved this thread from Today's Finds! over to Forum: What Is It? for more exposure.

 

[HuntinDog]

Tongue Half of a Tongue & Wreath Buckle.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Crusader's gut [feeling] is correct... those thin stamped-sheetbrass ones have turned out to be mid-1800s "patriotic civilian" buckles. Lots of them have been dug in California. Ask T-Net member BuckleBoy about them.

 

[CRUSADER]

Crusader's gut [feeling] is correct... those thin stamped-sheetbrass ones have turned out to be mid-1800s "patriotic civilian" buckles. Lots of them have been dug in California. Ask T-Net member BuckleBoy about them.

It was the thinnest that gave it away.