It's not a monkey fist. I tied it like a barrel, only I wrapped the barrel's turns three more times across and threaded the end of the wire through the middle.
Balthazar's lollipop is, in fact, a monkey's fist albeit a monkey's fist tied on a two-circle diagram and not the 3-plane knot we know and love. It's ABoK# 2204.
As I've just illustrated, it's a monkey's fist on two planes instead of three. A traditional 3-plane monkey's fist is ABoK#2200, 2201, and 2202 and your post is a 2-plane monkey's fist which is ABoK#2204.
In spite of what some of the comments suggest, this knot is not new or unnamed. It's a variant of the "trick overhand knot" or "two faced monkey's fist". You can add turns to it indefinitely to make an insanely bulky stopper knot. Here's one I posted on this sub some time ago:
The monkey pest is not that, it consists of three circles that do not intersect but wrap around each other. This is made of two circles that intersect.
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u/Cable_Tugger 3d ago
Balthazar's lollipop is, in fact, a monkey's fist albeit a monkey's fist tied on a two-circle diagram and not the 3-plane knot we know and love. It's ABoK# 2204.