6 edged coin ? Copper

[Eastcoasthunter21]

Hello all , hope your all out swinging
Today I found this strange item coin , tag,
I just don't know any help would be great thanks
Hh gl
Sometimes you just don't know !!

 

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[tamrock]

Some kind of brass tag that was used for identifying a variety different things?

 

[kcm]

Looks like an inspection tag.

 

[rykroll]

I have found bunch like that I have been told by some old timers that they are black farm labor trade tokens .

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It does kinda-sorta resemble a slave-hire badge (commonly called a "slave tag"), which were made and used ONLY in Charleston SC. (All with another town on them are fake.) But those genuine slave tags were never hexagonal (six-sided) like your find is.

The photo below shows the genuine octagonal and square/diamond-shaped slave hire tags. Note that they have "Charleston" on them in RAISED letters. The other photo shows several fakes, from various fraudsters on Ebay.

If you want to learn more, go to the following thread here at TreasureNet and scroll down to post #10 for information.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/my-best-finds/37105-charleston-slave-hire-badges.html

 

[CRUSADER]

All I can add, is that the style of the '2' is 18th C.