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Please note that come countries have import restrictions on these items, and it is up to you to be sure you can get it into your country. tajadero (Spanish for chopping knife) was a form of money used in central Mexico and parts of Central America. In recent years these larger Aztec Hoe money has become difficult to find, but we recently purchases a old collection of them with several types, which we will be adding in the near future. AXS.com brings you inside access to tickets, artist news, and exclusive stories on concerts, tours, sports teams, family events, arts, theater, and festivals nationally and in your town.
AXE MONIES PORTABLE
The T- shaped axe- monies were highly portable and easy to melt into low- arsenic copper-. Axe money developed over centuries: Axes, initially used as weapons and tools, turned into purely symbolic forms that were useless as objects of utility. Opitz, page # center (he does not have a numbering system). Interestingly, the T- shaped axes fail as tools (Hosler et al. Reference : Odd & Curious Money, 2nd edition, by Charles J. Axe-monies and their relatives Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item.
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What looks like a lighter bluish area on the end is just a figment of un-even lighting at the time I imaged this object. Material : copper toned dark green and brown, with lighter green deposits.Ĭondition : Intact but the tip of one arm has been bent and straightened. Based on ethnohistorical, archaeological, chemical, and metallurgical analyses, the scholars Hosler, Lechtman and Holm have argued for their use in both regions (which are separated by thousands of miles) through trade. Size : 140 mm long x 165 mm wide x 1.0 mm thick (on the main body) and about 3 mm thick on the raised rims that are on the underside of the blade, and along the edges of the handle part. Axe-monies ( Spanish: Tajaderos) refer to bronze artifacts found in both western Mesoamerica and the northern Andes. This particular example is a type is generally found inthe Oaxaca province of Mexico and probably dates to the 14th to 15th century.
AXE MONIES ARCHIVE
That document exists in an archive in Toledo (Spain) but unfortunatly does not provide enough detail to identify the exact type he saw in use. At least one type was still being used in the mid-16th century when, in 1548, a Spanish Conquestador wrote about them, describing their use as money, and gave an exchange rate against the Spanish real. A variety of hoe or axe shaped objects were used as money by the Pre-columbian Indians of Mexico and Peru, possibly as early as the the 12th or 13th century AD.