Bean Field Button---Help ID

[Boofer--(Va.)]

My Son, Mike(Virginia Beach) and I went to the bean field Saturday. The CZ 70 that I have been using is down for maintance. Mike let me use his with a 5 inch coil. Mike had his SE with a 4/1/2 x 7 inch coil. Son was using his CZ 70 with a 5 inch coil.
This place has been worked pretty hard and there is a ton of iron in it.
This was my first time using a small coil. It works good in high trash areas. Some areas have been grided 2 and 3 times. The small coils produced hits that larger coils did not.
Mike found the only silver-a Merc. and a rosie. Son found 6 or 7 buttons.
I found a couple of buttons. One is

 

[d-2]

That is neat. I think it says something like this "like the Phoenix, I will arise from the ashes" Thats what it said on the google site when I typed those words in. It's french. Now what it is I aint got a clue, but it sure is neat...d2

 

[Boofer--(Va.)]

Thanks--That's more than I knew when I posted it.
I used your idea and search the words on google.
It's is pretty interesting.

 

[MahatMacoat]

From Haiti. Early 19th century. Used as a trade item. I have three, all found in Virginia.

 

[Sanddigger]

n/t

 

[John - Maryland]

Phoenix Buttons
Emory Strong
American Antiquity, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Jan., 1960), pp. 418-419
doi:10.2307/277535

Abstract
Metal buttons bearing the Phoenix bird, a motto in French, and a number are found in quantity in historic sites along the lower Columbia River, and less commonly throughout western North America. Phoenix buttons were not made for Napoleon, as often claimed, but were manufactured by an English firm in the early 1800's for King Christophe of Haiti. The Phoenix bird and the motto come from his coat of arms; the numbers refer to regiments. These military uniform buttons were brought to the Northwest before 1835 by an independent trader, most likely Nathaniel Wyeth, who probably used uniform coats, which he may have obtained earlier when shipping ice to the West Indies, to trade for fish for his salmon packing plant on the Columbia River.

 

[Boofer--(Va.)]

Thanks for the good info.