"Follow The Leader" coin thread BY THEME (for ALL types of coins, tokens, and medals)

1966 GB 1 penny

 

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Nepal King Tribhuvan - Paisa, 1927




Let's change theme to weapons or tools

 

1790 half penny token, weapons or tools

 

Russia - 15 Kopeks, 1931

 

1979 Bangkok 50 lira, uh, I mean Italy

 

Greenland - 2 Kroner, 1922

 

Swiss shooting medal 1963:

 

2003 Kenya 40 shillings, has spears as weapons

 

Guatemala - 5 Centavos, 1957

 

1986 Greece 2 drachma

 

Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic - 5 Pesetas, 1992

 

British North Borneo 1 cent 1887H - I guess the things the locals are holding are clubs or spears?

 

Prussia - 3 Mark, 1913. Weapons on both sides if talons and fangs count.

 

1970 Muscat & Oman 100 baisa, swords and dagger

 

Italy 1926 2 Lira with some sort of axe:

 

There is a name for that bundle of sticks with an axe. Some resident genius will enlighten us soon, no doubt. Fasces? Maybe some word like that.

 

The bundle of sticks is called a Fasces - from which the term fascist was derived. Not sure if adding the axe changes the name. They are often used as a symbol of union as the bundle is stronger than the combined strength of the individual sticks. I think it started in Roman times.
Incidentally they found a new purpose in modern warfare - pushing prepared fasces into a ditch or small river was a quick way of providing a crossing point for tanks or vehicles.

 

Democratic Yemen - 5 Fils, 1971

 

This is a relatively new piece for me. More weapons.



Ruler: Abdur Rahman

Country Afghanistan (Barakzai dynasty)
Year 1316 (1899)
Calendar Islamic (Hijri)

Composition: Silver
Fineness: 0.9000
Weight: 45.6000g
Diameter: 45 mm

 

1975 Medal for the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies and Rocky Mountain Federation of Mineralogical Societies, featuring a rockhound's rock hammer: