Any ideas on this button

[JMC]

My friend found this button today while we were hunting his yard. It was maybe 8 inches down. Any ideas from anyone about age or what kind of button?

 

[klever]

Nice button, not sure about it though. What kind of detector did he find it with?

 

[JMC]

He is an experienced relic hunter and at the time was using an older Mine Lab Sovereign. It has an after market meter attached to the handle with the big control box in a leather case you can wear on the belt if you like. My little Compadre looked like a toy in comparison. I was holding my own coin wise against his unit. His meter was pretty accurate but the Compadre would hit on the same items with clean clear signals when we compared specific sites before digging. The Compadre was easier to gauge depth with since all I did was raise and lower the coil. Thumbing the dial was an easy way to filter out trash. His site is a wooded lot just over an acre with the house centered toward the front an old 1940's moble home off to one side then a couple of small out buildings and a pump house. Developed in the early 1940's it was the first home in that area at the time. Maybe half a dozen large trees had been removed over the last 25 years and the entire lot other than the buildings is large shade trees and old Florida ground cover. It's loaded with wheat pennies and other coins. Four of the nine pennies I dug were wheat 1929,1937,1953D, and 1956. From the amount of stuff he is finding on his property likely it's never seen a metal detector. He has only lived there a few months. I pulled an old capacitor out from under a root bundle that had sections three inches across. It had been in the ground for many decades. He hunts section by section very carefully. In time he will clear the site up quite well.