What eagle is this?

[Dark Chameleon]

Hope you can help finding out exactly what this is, ive been through hundreds of google pages trying.

I found it a few days ago near a new tree so they probably lifted it up some when they dug the hole for the tree.

Thanks for looking and hope you can help

 

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[Red James Cash]

It looked familiar to me so i looked at a 1830 half dollar and the eagle on the half is almost an exact match,except yours doesnt have the shield on its chest.I know that its probably irrelevant but i thought I would throw it out there anyway.

 

[Dark Chameleon]

Thanks for the help....I've looked at the eagle designs, some like the fire assurance plates but its just too small and the plates were always round/oval, it also looks like a confederate eagle but its holding onto what looks like lightning and the confederates held arrows, even saw the NRA design which has one claw holding lightning and the other holding a bag but cant find anything that really matches it.

There a roman coin has a more closer version of it so it could have had its design taken from that but i cant find and insigna, motif, badge, plaque, medal, etc anywhere.

It has a line across the backs lower line to about 1/8" high and i believe a slight curve side to side on it as though it was perhaps fixed to soemthing by its bottom edge rear and a circular object but theres nothing out there that matches it, ive looked at maybe 4/5000 images trying to find it.

Just hoping someone had already seen one before so id have a cluse when i take it to my md club meet next month

 

[creskol]

It almost looks like a part of a hat badge, something like a cockade or militia badge, but I don't recognize it. Maybe the CannonBallGuy will recognize it and chime in. Neat piece!

 

[duggap]

I first thought it was off a powder flask, but it doesn't look quite right somehow, for a powder flask.

 

[Dark Chameleon]

It seems to be cast, with the little green bits it could be bronze, there is a tiny curve to its left to right shape



Hope these extra two pictures help, it does look like it attatched by the base 1/8" and it has what looks like a fan type top edge