First off - great relic and I'm glad you "re-found" it. Hope you can find the rest of it and other Rev War related relics nearby. I have a similar story of a lost relic that I "re-found". I had just unearthed a 1784 Spanish half real that had been made into a cuff link, then re-used as a coin. You could see the nubs where the shank had been soldered on were worn smooth. Well I dug it, looked at it, and then went to slip it into a little zip lock baggie, but I dropped it too early and it didn't go into the baggie. I thought, no problem, I'll find it again with my metal detector. Well I scanned the area where I was standing and nothing. Started ranging out, still nothing. I'm really starting to panic now. I ended up skimming the dirt off a 6'x6' area thinking it might have fallen in a crevice in the field, still nothing. Then I noticed that the right pocket on my cargo pants, which was full of iron junk was gaping open. Stuck my hand in, and felt around, but didn't feel it. Chalked it up to lost and started detecting again. After a while I decided to check the pocket again, but this time I took everything out. And there it was in the pocket!
