Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight animalmenagerie Represented through photographic portraits

Represented through photographic portraits

There is loss to the brass finish in a few spots--on one side of his tiny head and a couple of spots on the tail (shot at magnification)

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

Really a beautiful piece from top to bottom

Timeless and really lovely

Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight animalmenagerie Represented through photographic portraitsThis 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