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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 8049436, member: 10461&quot;]A rare and very sought-after <a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/preservation/collections-holdings/the-material-culture-of-the-presidency/inaugural-buttons/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mountvernon.org/preservation/collections-holdings/the-material-culture-of-the-presidency/inaugural-buttons/" rel="nofollow">George Washington inaugural button</a>, which are sort of the crown jewel of button finds here in the US, if you’re a relic hunter.&nbsp; There were several types.</p><p><br /></p><p>if Sal’s buddy found FOUR in one day, it’s a day he will remember for the rest of his life!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare Confederate local buttons and stuff like the buttons and belt plates of esoteric forces like the Republic of Texas Navy are also the sort of things relic hunters lust after, depending on the region they live in.</p><p><br /></p><p>My most monetarily valuable detecting find was not a coin, but a bent and corroded pewter belt plate of the US Light Dragoons from the War of 1812.&nbsp; Though in rough shape, it might have been the only intact example known.&nbsp; The reference book showed only some <i>fragments</i> of one!&nbsp; I got $990 for it on eBay, 19-20 years ago.&nbsp; The buyer later said he’d have gone as high as $1,250.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some folks will gobble up that early militaria, and not care that it’s dug.&nbsp; In fact, obviously-dug stuff is more likely to be authentic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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