Watch List notes:

Aes Premonetale. Aes Formatum. Tear-claw shaped cast item, Central Italy, 6th-4th century BC. Unlisted in the standard references. Cf. I. Vecchi, NVMMORVM AVCTIONES 14, 1999, lot 864 (Objects found with Aes Rude, Tear shape). AE. 19.28 g. 35.50 mm. RR. Very rare. Lovely dark green patina. For bronze objects found with aes rude and early bars, see ICC p.83 ff. and A. M. Murgan, "Heavy metal in hallowed contexts. Continuity and change in aes deposits in Central Italy and Sicily" in "Embodying Value? The Transformation of Objects in and from the Ancient World", BAR International Series 2592, 2014.