Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight cooking and serving dish but it works great as

but it works great as is

Such a pretty pair

Surely there are a million things beyond pounding lead it might be employed to do--or just hang it on the wall

Light rusting as there should be

Italian Cast Bronze Large Ancient Coin Paperweight cooking and serving dish but it works great asThis 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