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Here's #15. I have two of these but there is a very slight difference in their bases.One has a slight recession at the bottom edge and the other one doesn't. It may be that the one without is just deformed enough to hide it, I don't know.
 

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Looking like Sharps Carbine round. There's all sorts of minor variants out there on these.
 
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The very slight difference between your two bullets is just a casting-mold variation. They are another variety of civil war era US .52 Sharps bullets. The McKee-&-Mason book called this variety a "Commercial" Sharps, meaning it was made for sale to the public, not just for military use. See the Thomas-&-Thomas "Handbook Of Civil War Bullets & Cartridges" bullet #110 (has small cone cavity in the base).
 
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Once more, thanks for the help.
 
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