Growing up in the Great NW. when i was in my teens i worked in the woods and fell trees and did all that logging thing. some of you may have seen the show Axe Men, very dangerous work. So i have been restoring old axes and saws used back in the Day. i have seen a couple ancient coins that have axes and crosscut saws, so i pick this one up and currently looking for a saw coin too! So post up your axe and saw coins or Lydia Thyatira coins. I'm sure they used these for battle too! F/F Lydia Thyatira. 2nd. Century BC. Obv. laureate head of Apollo right. Rev. Double Axe. 16mm x 4.09g. This is one of many other passions. Sager double bit axe, about 1930s, i have over 50 double and single bit axes. Here are a few of many two man crosscut saws. (5 and half foot Simons), 6' Atkins, even old Craftsman. leaning across the back is a topping saw, some crazy guy would clime to near the top and cut the top out before they fell the tree.
What a neat collecting theme! I don't recall a woodman's saw on any ancient coin, but there are axes. Here is a tiny one from Tenedos in Troas. Silver. 8 mm. 0.49 grams. obol Janiform heads of Hera and bearded Zeus (not clear on this coin) /Labris (double-headed ax) T E (dot above E) below on either side. Tenedos was the island behind which the Greek ships besieging Troy hid to fool the Trojans into thinking they had left.
Lydia, Thyatira Coin: Bronze Laureate head of Apollo QYATEI-RHNWN - Double headed axe (bipennis) Mint: Thyatira (After 200 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.62g / 15mm / - References: Walcher 2714 BMC 4-7 SNG von Aulock 3199 Weber 6921-6922 Imhoof LS 7
Of course, those are described as bows, but to my eyes it always looks like the emperor is finishing up his woodworking class project on a sawhorse.
This is for you Big John and Q.. Bow saw which came from your neck of the woods John. completely restored sharpened. Q that sure could be a bow saw. Big John way do the Amish paint them red ??
They mix rust into the paint which turns it red. Rust turns out to be very good at preventing mold and fungi from growing on wood, and it's plentiful on old farm equipment. That's how it was done in the old days, anyway. Now it just might be tradition - you can buy plenty of modern red paint that does a much better job of sealing the wood than rust.
Way Cool, Eng !!!! I seem to be 'saw/axless', but I'll double check.... I think the 'fasces' is the closet I have.
i don't have a copy anymore but macedon drachm minted at Miletos had that kind of axe under zeus' chair.
and a pair of axes struck by L. Valerius Acisculus in 45 BC: It's a punning type; the moneyer's name Acisculus is the Latin word for an ax of the type depicted here, more or less a pick-ax.
That's a very sweet OP-addition, my West Coast lumberjack (and cool saw photos => you really are that West Coast rain forest dude, eh?) Ummm, I'm fairly sure this is my only axe-ish coin ... Bosporian Kings, Sauromates I, Æ 48 Units - Implements of Battle – Date: circa 98-104 AD Size: 27.94 mm Weight: 9.49 grams Obverse: TIBEPIOC IOYΛIOC BACIΛEYC CAYPOMATHC, Sauromates seated right on curule chair, holding sceptre tipped with the head of Trajan Reverse: TEIMAI BACIΛEωC CAYPOMATOY, Round shield with spear, surrounded by battle axe, horse head, helmet, and sword in scabbard, mark of denomination (MH) below
