Your piece has the lead patina, a pop can has very little weight.
Lead is used a lot around the water. Patching holes, making fishing gear, whatever. Scrap lead was kept on hand to make what they needed.
I find a lot of lead in fields and paths near the ocean. The early settlers both farmed and fished and seemed to carry lead with them everywhere. The trails they used, the fields and around their houses we find a lot of lead in sheets, rods, bars and just melted blobs left over from melting lead. Some objects have nail holes in them others are obvious line weights and fishing gear, some look like play money, 3/4" to 1" discs sometimes with initials. The most common object we find are small leads balls with holes drilled through them, they look like musket balls except for the hole.
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