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@pick, I'm confused a bit by your pictures. I'm seeing a 1982 cent and a gilt button or something but the title and subforum had me expecting a large cent. Can you please explain what you are wanting from us? Thx.
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This is not what a capped die looks like, and this design is nothing like any US coin, from 1822 or otherwise.
I would assume this is a button of some kind. With the prominent anchor below the eagle, I would assume some kind of nautical button.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
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Does look like a button and not a coin in any regards.
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Pillar of the Community
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What's on the other side? Where do you get 1822 from? It's costs almost nothing to type more words.
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I was expecting something completely different...?  smat |
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What's on the other side? I would assume that the second picture shows "the other side" - which shows an incuse-inverted image of the obverse, surrounded by rusty metal of some kind (which is why I am assuming "button"). It's that inuse-inverted effect that's presumably led the OP to guess "capped die", since this is an effect you can see on actual capped die pieces. However, in this case, I think we have a bracteate button - an item that was made by pressing the design through the thin metal from one side to the other. In medaieval Germany a thousand years ago, they used to make coinage in this fashion - but nobody's used this technique for coin-making since then.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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I agree this is the front only of what would have been a 2 piece pressed back button. Possibly a post 1941 era US military Navy issue or a modern era reproduction. Without the back intact it is impossible to date. Zero value in this condition.
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Bedrock of the Community
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 to the CCF!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A 1982 cent then a button. What is the connection that you have a question about?
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Bedrock of the Community
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To CCF! Is your question about the '82 D LMC or the button?
Errers and Varietys.
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In medaieval Germany a thousand years ago, they used to make coinage in this fashion - but nobody's used this technique for coin-making since then. Not entirely accurate.  
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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a 1982 Large date cent in the first image, then a few buttons.
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Not entirely accurate. Technically, those are "tokens", not "coins". But point taken.  
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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