Liberty Head 10/11 Stars Obverse With A Sick Looking Eagle On The Reverse Holed 0.59g 13.06mm

It has the looks of a spiel marke or jeton.

Thanks HondoB. Yes the spiel marke I think is the piece I remembered. Thanks! Also noticed that this post https://goccf.com/t/466254 references a spel marke that has a liberty head with 10 stars.

I would assume it to be a "jewellery imitation". It was quite common back int he day to turn gold and silver coins into items of jewellery - a "flaunt your wealth" kind of thing. And if you weren't actually rich enough to afford a genuine gold coin for your necklace, then you bought an imitation-coin necklace so you could still look the part. If so, this piece is something intended to be turned into a necklace, with a design that looks enough like an actual coin at first glance, but is nowhere near close enough for the manufacturer to be accused of counterfeiting. And if it was intended as a jewellery-piece, then it was probably made with the hole already there.

If this is the case do you think the 10/11 stars are significant in terms of estimating the time period it was made? I also count 9 remaining stars on the reverse but there could have been 1 or 2 more hidden by wear/damage/hole making. Also the dies seem to have been crudely made.



I think anything is possible and yours is an interesting theory. I don't know a thing about civil war coinage/tokens from the south. I'm somewhat familiar with civil was tokens but the ones I've seen are dated.

Excellent input @Sap and @HounddogBill. Looking forward to more thoughts and ideas on how to research this piece.