Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight brown and red This is a third printing

This is a third printing 1940 copy

is in fact packed in pretty tightly and not really threatening to come apart

or for cheering up oneself

making it feel massive despite its diminutive size

They are stamped Philippines on the bottom

Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight brown and red This is a third printingThis 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