Nearly Perfect Confederate Button and HUGE Bullet

FoundInNC

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After mowing my yard I headed off to detect. The rain drove me home shortly, but I found two keepers before being driven out. I dug a Civil War transitional backmarked Bingham School button, (CSA Military Academy that trained many of the NC Junior Reserves 1861-1865). My other neat find was a huge bullet. I know nothing about it, other than the fact that it has no primer, it is painted red-white-blue, and it is 100% steel. It is pictured beside a 50BMG at the bottom. Thanks for reading, enjoy the pictures!
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Wildcat1750

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Awesome Confederate CW find!!!...and that's one huge shell!
 

reednc

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Brad, Congratulation on another nice Bingham School button for your collection. That is an enormous bullet.
 

borlamm1

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Id call the bullet a 20 mil that has been demilled

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FoundInNC

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Turns out you guys were right! It is a World War II 20 mm dummy round! I took some sandpaper to the top and there it was, stamped into the top: CARTRIDGE DRILL 20MM
Thanks for the comments!
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JimDon

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Sweet button. Ive been wanting one of these for some time. Just can't get out to those kind of sites.
 

JmCraz8

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Amazing button like it was dropped yesterday, congrats!!!
 

Valley Ranger

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That's a beautiful button - nice!
 

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super sweet button and really cool 20mm practice round
 

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