Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight cooking and serving dish but certainly another ladle can

but certainly another ladle can be used

This varnished one

Light rusting as there should be

3" tall X 3 5/8" wide X 2" deep and in great shape

Hintz received his  B

Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight cooking and serving dish but certainly another ladle canThis 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