1738 Patriotic button

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Went out and hit a area in the woods close by where I live and thinking I wont have any luck, until I pop this awesome looking button out the ground, 1738 Patriotic button(don't know to much about this button),....along with a musket ball and a rusty old hoe.

Patriotic button
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Musket ball and a old rusty hoe.
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Someone would need to explain the Patriotic bit, as coin buttons are copied from all types of coins. (the Spanish being a common one in the UK, no colony over here) Seen most nationalities including Austrian coins. You can't tell me the Roman Coin Buttons are Patriotic, doesn't make sense. The only think that makes sense is that they are fashionable.
I call this one out as another internet Myth/scam for the ebay sellers.
 

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That button is absolutely perfect! What a find! That thing looks like it was just made. I will hunt my whole life to find one like that in that condition!!!!
 

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Very nice button
 

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Nice find, it may be #HSD8 in http://www.botonistica.es/catalogo19/pag1.html
Very curious the figure "8" also the moto PLUS VLTRA is not in a banner wrap ( as it is in coins) but inscribed along the pillar.
It is an imitation of 8 reales (see acanthus leaves above columns) but smaller size, 25 mm??

Repeat, nice find
 

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That coin is absolutely awesome. Look forward to learning more as the posts and reactions come in! Something tells me that coin is VERY special.
 

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Went out and hit a area in the woods close by where I live and thinking I wont have any luck, until I pop this awesome looking button out the ground, 1738 Patriotic button(don't know to much about this button),....along with a musket ball and a rusty old hoe.

Patriotic button
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Musket ball and a old rusty hoe.
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Nice find! That must have come out of some really good ground. 1738 seems to be the common date. I dug a few here in N. J . that are 1738.
 

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I’ve never seen a “facsimile” that big, nor with unique markings. Most facsimile cufflink are exactly that, a cast replica of an actual coin. This one looks struck which is odd, although the back of the button looks contemporary to the second half of the 18th century. This I would say is more of a finer production piece that (in my opinion so take that as you will) dates to the latter part of the 18th century. I have a few examples I’ve dug if the facsimile type which I’ll try to dig up. Either way, I’ve not seen one like that so GREAT FIND!
 

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Here’s one I’ve dig. This was probably a clay cast of an original which causes a loss in detail. Last, I’m not sure how it got labeled as patriotic so maybe you could share that source?
 

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Some experts believe that it was used as a sign of rebellion against the British, others that it was considered a good luck charm by African slaves, but we have to think that this coin (and after the bust/spanish pillar coat of arms) was the first global currency and was legal tender in the USA until the middle of the 19th century. And (it is my theory), these buttons are -the most- made in usa; so they follow a common fashion in several countries: to use replica coins (the one used in those countries) as buttons.
 

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Nice find! That must have come out of some really good ground. 1738 seems to be the common date. I dug a few here in N. J . that are 1738.
And those 1738 buttons are similar to Detectormoe,s one?
 

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