Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight antique wood with a 2 Cent Washington

with a 2 Cent Washington stamp on reverse

The winder can be a bit jerky if held horizontally rather than vertically (but not problematically so

And then a little bump out for the polka dotted base across the front of which the talons wrap

25ʺw × 5

which for me rather enhances its end-of-the-day feeling

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight antique wood with a 2 Cent WashingtonI'm no expert on late Roman early Byzantine bronze weights to say the least, but I am rather obsessed with this one, finding it a wonderfully mysterious, miraculous, and beautiful tiny thing. I purchased it from a favorite shop (very beautiful itself) in Vermont, where one of the two owners s himself obsessed and quite knowledge about these sorts of things. I haven't dug very deep, but from what I understand small bronze weights like this were used as