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

but certainly another ladle can be used

it does not function as an eraser

) I am not sure this piece is that old-- I think perhaps mid- to late-19th century--but certainly it is very finely made

Hintz received his  B

Such a pretty pair

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