Are these silver or lead? How to tell?

[scooper77515]

Found a bunch of stuff this morning, and these two nuggets have me confused. They seem a bit heavy, maybe lead? how can I tell for sure?

Also several coins, a small pendant (need to determine if silver as well), a wheatie, and 50 centavo piece.

The silver pieces are not magnetic. So that test is out of the way.

Scratched easily with a knife.

 

[skookum]

High,
Take a soldering iron that is heated up and touch them with that.
Lead will melt - silver will not.
Just an idea.
C ya
skookum

 

[Forrest Mc]

I have found lots of melted aluminum cans that look similar. Mostly on river beaches.

 

[geodehunter]

You can mark on a piece of paper with lead but not silver.

 

[scooper77515]

Hmmmm. Not leaving marks on newspaper...

Way too heavy for aluminum.

 

[Fabio]

Pewter???

 

[scooper77515]

Ugh! Lead. Leaves marks on regular paper, but not newspaper. Got my hopes all up for nothing.

Oh well, found a huge pocketful of change, and cleaned a bunch of buried cans and trash out of the area.

 

[TheOtherLeggoHead]

Melt it into a bullet and shoot a Werewolf with it.

 

[Mtnmn]

Bismuth that has been melted will look like that too. The old-timers used it a lot way back.