Can anyone help identification on this ? Thank you

Oct 8, 2014
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It is an artillery projectile, but from the World War One or Two era, definitely not from the civil war era. The slanted parallel ridges on the brass band are called rifling marks, and they mean your projectile has been fired. It is the class of artillery projectile called APCBC (Armor Piercing, Capped, Ballistic-Capped). Yours is missing its cap, which is a "missile nosecone shaped" metal cover attached to the projectile's nose to make it more aerodynamically efficient than the flat nose would be. Very similar ones are shown at the following website, although your exact version isn't. Scroll about halfway down the webpage to the APCBC-projectiles section.
An Introduction To Collecting Artillery Shells And Shell Casings - International Ammunition Association

Most of that type are Solid-Shot (non-explosive). But some had a fuze in the projectile's flat base. I need to see some closeup photos of your projectile's base to tell whether it is a Solid-Shot or an explosive shell.
 

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