Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight animalmenagerie Really a beautiful piece from

Really a beautiful piece from top to bottom

How much nicer to use this old hourglass timer than one's phone to track the minutes while boiling an egg

Really a terrific piece that would command attention wherever it is placed

shot at 2x magnification

and currently based in Amherst

Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight animalmenagerie Really a beautiful piece fromThis interesting cast bronze object, which I think I'd use as a paperweight, is based on a very ancient (c. 275 B. C) coin from Hatria (now Atri in the Abruzzo region of Italy and thus the HAT on one side), perhaps originally an Etruscan colony, then Roman, which sold for about 50K at auction in 2016. It features the head of Silenus (a drinking companion of Bacchus) on one side, and a sleeping dog on the other. I'd guess this oversized reproduction