coinman123
Silver Member
Hello! I found this button today in an old overgrown farm field. It rang up as a zinc penny on my metal detector and wasn't very deep. It looks to be a one piece cast flat button, made of brass. The brass is so corroded that I believed it to be pewter when I first found it. The cool thing about it is that it has a drilled shank, my first flat button to ever have one, and I have found close to 200 flat buttons at this point. The front has a cast raised design rather than a typical etched design. I read on some places that this style of button could be very old, maybe even 1600's, but I am not sure. What do you guys think about it?
It's not very big, about the size of a nickel. .22 bullet casing for size.



It's not very big, about the size of a nickel. .22 bullet casing for size.


