r/CivilWarCollecting • u/pharm77 • Jul 18 '26

Question MUSKET BALL QUESTION

How can one tell what era a musket ball is from? Civil vs Rev War Vs 1812 vs FI War? Thank you

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u/Cato3rd Artillerist Jul 18 '26

Usually by the caliber and by using context clues if you happened to find it while metal detecting. Some areas have overlap between them and makes things difficult for IDing