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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2825591, member: 10461&quot;]Kudos to [USER=15019]@Numismat[/USER] for nailing down the attribution to Venezuela.&nbsp; The arms looked familiar to me, but I couldn&#039;t quite place them.&nbsp; The object appears to have been a two-piece uniform button that lost its shank and back piece and then got flattened out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1954-2006 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Venezuela" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Venezuela" rel="nofollow">coat of arms of Venezuela</a> shows the horse galloping right, looking back.&nbsp; The previous version had it looking forward, and the present version has it galloping to the left.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Escudo_Nacional_de_Venzuela._1954_-_2006.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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