>>2118924Ancient European lead bullets are my favorites, because the nice rare and valuable ones were cast with embossed designs or words.
Clockwise from bottom left:
- a standard-size 25 gram c. 348 BC bullet embossed NA/MER, of Namertes. Bullets generally got heavier as time went on.
- an Iberian projectile weighing 147 grams, probably Sertorian or Caesar's Civil War era.
- a 99 gram Hellenistic bullet from the Balkans.
- a 171 gram Hellenistic bullet embossed with a thunderbolt to "smite" the enemy, Bulgaria or Turkey and probably used against horsemen or war elephants
- a presumably Seleucid bullet from Jordan or Israel emblazoned with another nice thunderbolt, 52 grams, more standard for later Hellenistic/Roman era projectiles.
- bottom center is my heaviest, a massive 249 gram lead projectile from Cyprus also probably used as special ammo for horsemen, war elephants or other harder targets.
