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Message:: [QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 4511970, member: 91240"]I didn't dig too deep, but I went a little down the rabbit hole and found that one of the earliest studies on inscribed bullets was an 1864 paper called, appropriately enough, "On Inscribed Sling-bullets," by a John McCaul. Obviously, there's much more recent and comprehensive studies out there, but he gives a nice summary of the general types of inscriptions. We tend to focus on funny ones or insults, but one of the main categories he notes is the names of deities: [ATTACH=full]1118080[/ATTACH] Abbreviations are common too, so HPA could also mean Heracles, orHerakleia, and so on. [USER=99613]@Numisnewbiest[/USER], it also looks like there's an inscription on both sides of your bullet. Anyway, here's my perfectly ordinary Roman bullet; it's "said to be" found in Spain, but came to me via a Japanese collection: [ATTACH=full]1118081[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]