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Only found one good thing today but what a find it was!

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cz70pro

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After attending and having a great time at a seeded club hunt this morning, I went out hunting around some old foundations in the woods with a friend for the rest of the day. After a few initial junk signals, I got a 12-49 signal at about 4 inches. I was expecting a silver ring or large coin but was completely surprised when this huge Civil War coat button popped out of the hole. It came out of the dirt back side showing first and when I turned it over and saw the eagle and anchor, I was blown away. After field cleaning it, I sat it down on some moss with a quarter next to it to show the size of this button. This is a US Marine Corps button (MC-10A in the book) that was used from 1850-1865 with a Scoville Mfg Co. Waterbury back mark. Finding a USMC Civil War era button in East Tennessee is a pretty rare occurrence. This was a first for me and it cleaned up beautifully.
 
A real piece of history - congrats !
 
Very cool button. Love the military buttons.
 
nalc472 said:
Very cool button. Love the military buttons.
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Thanks nalc472. Love finding those awesome buttons from our nation's military history too.
 
http://www.civilwarbuttons.com/uscentrlist.htm scroll about 3/4 down

Ridiculous. I'm only going to parks built in the last 6 months with you from now on.
 
chrisggard said:
http://www.civilwarbuttons.com/uscentrlist.htm scroll about 3/4 down

Ridiculous. I'm only going to parks built in the last 6 months with you from now on.
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LOL
 
I know nothing about buttons. What kind of value does it have to a collector?
 
bugg said:
I know nothing about buttons. What kind of value does it have to a collector?
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I could not tell you for sure. I never sell anything I find (other than modern gold jewelry) so I really do not keep up on values.
 
Beautiful button.
 
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