Classic Coinstrike found this one:detecting:

[Bill Ladd]

I posted this picture on the other Fisher forum, but really it was a Coinstrike find. Here are a couple finds from the last week at 2 different sites. The first is a Civil War veteran's piece (medal?) from the Grand Army of The Republic, or GAR I detected in an old yard. There are no ribbon or a pin attachment I can see, & the back has a bunch of weird good luck-type symbols. I'm wondering if it was a pocket piece or something? I have to do more research. The war was over in 1866, so I'm hoping that's the date this "medal" was issued. Thought it was just a kids toy sheriff badge till I felt the weight.....
The second piece is a native American artifact I picked up in a plowed field after all the rain we've had. No detector needed We think the coins & relics we find are "old"...but this is mind blowing old. Possibly 10,000 years old I think it's cool to find one of these. It makes you think that your the first person to touch this since the Indian who used it thousands of years ago.........
HH,
Bill

 

[Keith Southern]

I like the different branches of service in points of the star. real nice piece of History.I have dug a couple of U.C.V. badges down here in Georgia over the years and the veteran stuff is always nice to find .Those men were true to the cause till the end on both sides.

Nice point too.Cant resist picking those up when you see them.

Keith Southern

 

[BJ in Okla.]

Also a complete picture of one....
Nice find.
BJ

 

[Cliff KS]

I did not dig it. It was among my grandfather's possessions when he passed away. He was a WWI veteran, but I assume it was handed down in his family and that his grandfather may have been a civil war veteran. According to some people who had a display of some civil war medals at a gun show I attended, it hung on a ribbon (fastened to the two upper points of the star) under another metal piece that had a pin on the back. It was a medal issued to veterans of the northern army right after the war. They said that if I researched my family tree, that I might find the name of my ancestor in some records that were kept of those who were issued the veterans medal.

 

[BJ in Okla.]

n/t

 

[Bill Ladd]

Apparently it hung from a ribbon.....someone even sent me a picture of a vet wearing one which is very cool.....
HH,
Bill

 

[BJ in Okla.]

My friend found the top part and nothing else..
BJ