Pewter Military Button of some sort

Bharpring

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Update: this has been ID’d as a 2nd Regiment South Carolina button from the Rev War.

I dug this pewter button today that appears to have part of a number on the face. It looks like part of a number 3 (which is upside down in the pictures) and would make it a SC 3rd Button. I was using the XP Deus HF Round Coil and investigated an iffy signal. Out pops this button.

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I have talked to a few people that have found the Number 3 buttons around Savannah and they say that each button has a little different style of the number 3.

Here is one that I found a few years ago.

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Tough one. But I still like it.
 

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Steve in PA

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They also find the Chatham Artillery rattlesnake buttons around Savannah and that's a nice one in your pic. I had to pay for mine
 

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I really like the buttons and that one sure looks old. Congrats on the save.
 

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So we have a positive ID- this button is a Rev War 2nd South Carolina Button- Francis Marion's Regiment before he became the Swamp Fox

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Nice finds, congratulations! :occasion14:
 

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Sad that the soil is so cruel to those nice old buttons....next one you will find will be in better shape. try the area that you found that one in again sir!
 

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