1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

[goldnow]

1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

The first three inches of ground 'round these parts are rock solid frozen, but I was able to cut through to the softer dirt in low 30 degree temps.

I just got permission to search around an abandoned house, probably built 150-200 years ago, but the land has had millenniums of activity. Starting too close to the house and downhill, I realized after around 6 bottle caps, sardine cans, and tons of aluminum, that they just threw their garbage off the balcony, so concentrated this trip on just the better signals.

Found a half dozen rusty vineyard machetes and the like, but finally hit COIN! at the one hour mark. It looks to be "SOVIA ANO 93" on the top with the Milan coat of arms, that reminds me of a Turtle. The back is flat as an iced pond. Any help on IDing is always greatly appreciated.

The other two interesting pieces are the 3" saw teeth, with their edges serrated (hard to see in the pic) Dem's sum big trees!

 

[Fireroad]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Nice coin, not sure about that but the "saw teeth" are actually combine or harvester knives, so the site must have seen some farming in the past.

 

[Old River]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Those blades came of an old cycle mower. We used them to cut hay with, and I'm sure others used them in other ways.

 

[goldnow]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Nice coin, not sure about that but the "saw teeth" are actually combine or harvester knives, so the site must have seen some farming in the past.

Thanks for the info. This land is terraced and steep, with thin stone steps to access the next terrace. No room for a big harvester, but maybe for something hand carryable. And from what I see these people were pack rats for almost any kind of tool. The next generation owner, let me into a room chocker block full of tools, and I walked away, with many gifts from him, including a literal bucket full of different kinds of hammers that go back to 1900 or earlier, for shingling, nailing, stone, mallets (iron and wood), etc., etc. The reason I thought "saw teeth" was because he also gave me a 5 foot saw.

 

[creeper71]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Nice coin, not sure about that but the "saw teeth" are actually combine or harvester knives, so the site must have seen some farming in the past.

Thanks for the info. This land is terraced and steep, with thin stone steps to access the next terrace. No room for a big harvester, but maybe for something hand carryable. And from what I see these people were pack rats for almost any kind of tool. The next generation owner, let me into a room chocker block full of tools, and I walked away, with many gifts from him, including a literal bucket full of different kinds of hammers that go back to 1900 or earlier, for shingling, nailing, stone, mallets (iron and wood), etc., etc. The reason I thought "saw teeth" was because he also gave me a 5 foot saw.

Those tools he gave you could be worth alot of money, there is a tool price guide floating around..if you can find one you should page thru it..or buy it... I'm pretty sure the 5ft saw has some value...

 

[hikeinmts]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

The 5 ft. saw sounds like a 2-man cross cut saw. It could go through some very very big trees. My dad and a friend of his
worked as a team in Eastern Oregon back in the 30's in several of the logging camps up the Grand Ronde River out of LaGrande.
If it's in good shape, then probably worth a few bucks. Maybe more, as a historical item.

 

[Fireroad]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Nice coin, not sure about that but the "saw teeth" are actually combine or harvester knives, so the site must have seen some farming in the past.

Thanks for the info. This land is terraced and steep, with thin stone steps to access the next terrace. No room for a big harvester, but maybe for something hand carryable. And from what I see these people were pack rats for almost any kind of tool. The next generation owner, let me into a room chocker block full of tools, and I walked away, with many gifts from him, including a literal bucket full of different kinds of hammers that go back to 1900 or earlier, for shingling, nailing, stone, mallets (iron and wood), etc., etc. The reason I thought "saw teeth" was because he also gave me a 5 foot saw.

Those tools he gave you could be worth alot of money, there is a tool price guide floating around..if you can find one you should page thru it..or buy it... I'm pretty sure the 5ft saw has some value...

Cool...tools are an area of interest for me. I collected and sold them for years, everything from carpentry tools to machinist tools. Metal detecting is a new hobby I'm getting into..it's interesting the tools I've seen on posts that I usually can identify quickly. FYI Yes tools can be valuable, hammers can if they are a blacksmith or farrier's type. If you can see my avitar it is a close up of an early hand stamped carpentry square I found, circa 1800. Happy digging!

 

[Mackaydon]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

That 'coin' may be a token or an ID tag for another product.
Totally flat on the reverse is a clue to it may not be a coin.

 

[vayank54]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Those blades came of an old cycle mower. We used them to cut hay with, and I'm sure others used them in other ways.

They look like teeth a what we always called a bar cycle that was used on the side of a tractor to cut tall grass, hay and whatever

 

[mtntrekr2]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw


Old Horse Drawn Cycle-Bar Mower

 

[vayank54]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

mtnteker2 ,that's a bit older than the ones I used to use

 

[Slabman]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Yep... reciprocating sickle blades. It would be cool if they were worth something.
I'm sure there are several hundred around our old family farm. My grandfather
was always sharpening or replacing them.

Slab

 

[vayank54]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Yep... reciprocating sickle blades. It would be cool if they were worth something.
I'm sure there are several hundred around our old family farm. My grandfather
was always sharpening or replacing them.

Slab

Yeah they aren't really worth anything. Stuff like that I bring home and throw in the metal recycle bin at the dump. Copper and brass I keep and sell at the scrap metal place though.

 

[sniffer]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

I had one of those blades cut through the outside edge of my palm while I was fixing a sickle bar on the combine
it took less than a tenth of second for me to see that I needed a doctor. LOL

 

[vayank54]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

OUCH I can imagine. Your lucky it just got the edge.

 

[goldnow]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Nice coin, not sure about that but the "saw teeth" are actually combine or harvester knives, so the site must have seen some farming in the past.

Thanks for the info. This land is terraced and steep, with thin stone steps to access the next terrace. No room for a big harvester, but maybe for something hand carryable. And from what I see these people were pack rats for almost any kind of tool. The next generation owner, let me into a room chocker block full of tools, and I walked away, with many gifts from him, including a literal bucket full of different kinds of hammers that go back to 1900 or earlier, for shingling, nailing, stone, mallets (iron and wood), etc., etc. The reason I thought "saw teeth" was because he also gave me a 5 foot saw.

Those tools he gave you could be worth alot of money, there is a tool price guide floating around..if you can find one you should page thru it..or buy it... I'm pretty sure the 5ft saw has some value...

Cool...tools are an area of interest for me. I collected and sold them for years, everything from carpentry tools to machinist tools. Metal detecting is a new hobby I'm getting into..it's interesting the tools I've seen on posts that I usually can identify quickly. FYI Yes tools can be valuable, hammers can if they are a blacksmith or farrier's type. If you can see my avitar it is a close up of an early hand stamped carpentry square I found, circa 1800. Happy digging!

I sold many museum piece tools over the years that I collected from the original families and sold to collectors. Some are in a beautifully photographed coffee table book called "TOOLS - Rare and Ingenious".

I have a room full of old tools, that I must go through to see which ones will help buy me a new 10 X 12 for the open fields I'll be detecting come Spring.

 

[tymcmurray]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Very nice coin!

Ty

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[Knightwalker]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Nice coin.
HH in 2010

 

[wwwtimmcp]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

we always called them bar sickle mowers, used them to cut many a hay field.

 

[halfdime]

Re: 1793(?) coin & Biggist Saw Teeth I ever Saw

Nice coin! Yep, those teeth look like they came off a sickle bar; we had one for a set of old Gravely tractors we once owned. I finally sold it with all our Gravely equipment and bought a metal detector. I've never missed it!