Military?? Button Question

[emwonk]

I found the button in the image below in Ottawa, IL in the front yard of a home. On the back, it has an eye-hole made into the surface of the back, rather than one of those "rings," with no markings of any kind other than what you see on the front. Because this sort of bony-looking eagle design in coins is typically from very early US history, I suspect this eagle is a relatively old design, and I'm curious what sort of button it is and what it's value is. With my luck it's some sort of copy, or one of 400,000,000 made...

Thanks for any insights or comments...

 

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[PBK]

So, is there such a thing as a 4 piece button....do you just count the parts on the back and the ring or what.?

A three-piece (or "staff") button has a front and a back, held together by a separate metal rim, as indicated by red arrows in the photo below.

The shank/eye isn't counted.

 

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[emwonk]

Correction -- The size is just slightly larger than a nickel. I looked again with a loupe and there's no trace of any writing anywhere. Are you saying the construction rules out the possibility of it being pre-1900?

Thanks agian for all of the comments. Just in case any of you are intersted in tokens, I posted an interesting RR pass in the tokens room.

 

[Michelle]

So, is there such a thing as a 4 piece button....do you just count the parts on the back and the ring or what.?

A three-piece (or "staff") button has a front and a back, held together by a separate metal rim, as indicated by red arrows in the photo below.

The shank/eye isn't counted.

Cool...attachment doesn't count....Now I know how to tell the difference!