Mar 13, 2011 - Sunday I had to drive my son back to Boston and stopped just outside of town at a green... and had a blast! :-) I recovered a nice 1899 Barber Dime, an 1864 and 1893 Indian Head Pennies, a large Token for a Daredevil Show… Two older lead toys… Then along came a 12/31 6-7” signal… I figured it was probably an old pull tab, but you never know and I was digging anything that repeated that day… I cut a deep plug and in the side of the plug I saw some gilt… and popped out a set of cuff links… not just any cuff links… Federal Revenue Cutter buttons appear to be Civil war era... It says this group eventually became the Coast Guard These are a rare find... Wikipedia quotes: "The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in 1790 as an armed maritime law enforcement service. Throughout its entire existence the Revenue Cutter Service operated under the authority of the United States Department of the Treasury. In 1915 the Service merged with the United States Life-Saving Service to form the United States Coast Guard."