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.
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
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!