Lead Token?

[DanInMA]

Here's a lead token a smidge bigger than a penny. Found in river amidst 1880-1920 era stuff. Used light, blurry photo to best illustrate what's still visible. Central figure is a shield. Looks like numbers (date?) with a couple of 8's underneath point. Other writing around circumference is obliterated. Nothing on reverse. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan

 

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[bk]

Thats an interesting find. Is it made of lead? It could be some sort of a tamper evident lead seal. They used to put tamper evident seals on railroad cars after it was loaded.
Just a guess though. I would keep it and try to do more research on it.

 

[DanInMA]

Thanks bk--it's lead

I think it's too small to be a railroad seal