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Large lead cannonball(?), probably rare.

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Large lead cannonball(?), probably rare.
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Large lead cannonball(?), probably rare. 273 grams, 1½" in diameter. Too large to be a musketball but probably too soft to be a cannonball, but unquestionably ammunition of some sort, this strange piece is among the first we have seen, very well formed and with brown and white patina. Found in a Spanish colonial area in the southern Caribbean, ca. 1590.