What's the story behind your Numista profile picture?

I've often wondered about this for numerous other users on the forum, and I'm genuinely curious to hear some of the reasons why your profile pic is what it is! (if you have one)

My own is just a very common 'Semeuse' type 1 Franc coin issued from 1898-1920.
https://fr.numista.com/catalogue/pieces682.html
I always liked the symbolism of hope (the rising sun) and rebirth (the sower), or at least that's how I interpret it!

One of the first coins that got me interested in collecting was the resurrected nickel version that came out after 1960 with the introduction of the Nouveau Franc for several decades. It's nice to see such a striking design enduring on Euros as well, but I decided to go with the original silver coin for my pic.

(A less romantic reason is that it was the only picture of which I could find that was the appropriate size for a profile pic, and if I can find a suitably sized version I may change it to the Turin 20 Francs in the future)

I like evening more than dawn. Thus, I photographed a nice Victoria Harbour picture and set it as my profile picture.

Mine was an entry for the last Numista token. I wrote the description here

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic55814.html#dernier

Mine is just the reverse of a US 1897 5-dollar gold piece. The photo had good contrast and looked reasonable when shrunk to profile pic size.

Mine is Mauritius 100 Rupees, but has a Dodo on it, which is extinct, unlike me.
When I was looking for a profile picture, this one stood out, but no idea why.

I have always had a fascination with old European and North American silver and gold imperial/colonial coinage, and I love the old pre-decimal penny and sovereign designs. This is a photo of one of my first pre-1900 silver piece. I was a young child and interested in coins (had a small collection of about 600) and a friend of the family popped in, he presented everyone with a gift as it was just before Christmas and mine was a matchbox, a little saddened on the inside but when I opened it, there sat a 1893 crown (5s) and a jubilee head 1890 double florin (4s). I had only ever hears about them before or seen them in books and had a growing fascination with the Britannia penny. What sealed the deal on the crown was that I remember still being in awe with the 'George and the Dragon' design after a few Christmases ago when my uncle showed me his 1889 sovereign (which my auntie dropped). Since then I have amassed an small inner collection of antique silver world coins from Hong Kong to Panama

Just a nice portrait of my emperor ;). (Also a coin I really like)

Coin of first Bohemian king. Guess I have power complex, as it show throne seated guy.


From coin comment:
Vratislaus II, second son of Bretislaus I, taken control of Duchy of Bohemia in 1061. He is known for being the very first king of Bohemia. We was active in the Investiture contests, and as a token of gratitude, he recieved royal coronation from the hands of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, although the title was not hereditary. Thus he ruled as a king from 1085 until 1092.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces77797.html

Just the Boston "B" for my baseball team, the Boston Red Sox!

Mine is a Free City of Danzig 5 Gulden (https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces28356.html), which is one of my all time favourite coin.
I remember when I got it, it was on my birthday (2012?) and my grandma gave me a small chest which se haf found among by late grandather's things. She said it was probably from my grandfather's brother, who collected coins. In this chest were a lot of coins, mostly European WWI and WWII and also some German WWII banknotes. Most of them I could identify within seconds, but there were a few I had never seen before, which made me really curious. It turned out that most of these coins were from the Free City of Danzig. A few 5 and 10 pfennig and also 3 really nice 1/2 gulden and 3 1 gulden in high condition. But the biggest of them all was this 5 gulden coin. It's still my precious out of all my coins - even if it's not even silver.

My profile...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12800.html

I just like South Africa coins minted before 1991

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My is king of Sparta, Leonidas, as my nickname. For me it is a symbol of bravery and courage, as I must had it in hard life times :).

Mine is the weighing of the heart from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
You can read about it here: http://www.egyptian-scarabs.co.uk/weighing_of_the_heart.htm

I choose it because I'm interested in the culture and history of Ancient Egypt.

I just changed mine into my escalin from 1750 :
https://fr.numista.com/catalogue/pieces28161.html

A coin I love for its design. Since I began collecting I wanted to grab one and now I got one.
I won't change until I grab a silver coin from the United States of Belgium....

If some of you remember, I previously had Luffy from One Piece as profile picture. Totally coin non-related but it is one of my favourite character from an anime or a show.

I make copper art, it’s a maple leaf I made.

You have a blacksmith for iron, a white smith for iron that is cleaned of its black scaling (kitchen ware), gold smith, silver smith, and for copper a redsmith.

This is is my rose!

引用する: "redsmithstudios"​I make copper art, it’s a maple leaf I made.
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​You have a blacksmith for iron, a white smith for iron that is cleaned of its black scaling (kitchen ware), gold smith, silver smith, and for copper a redsmith.
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​Wow! Impressive. I admire that kind of work. If I wasn't so dumb with my hands, I would have liked to work with metal.
That's art !

Yes, redsmith is so clever - he made this for me as part of a swap 6 years ago. I still have it.
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic18782.html#p145562

引用する: "Choucas"​I just changed mine into my escalin from 1750 :
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​A coin I love for its design. Since I began collecting I wanted to grab one and now I got one.
​I won't change until I grab a silver coin from the United States of Belgium....
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​If some of you remember, I previously had Luffy from One Piece as profile picture. Totally coin non-related but it is one of my favourite character from an anime or a show.

Wow,
Nice new pic.
I have a friend who's mothers Japanese and loves anime​

引用する: "ZacUK"​ Yes, redsmith is so clever - he made this for me as part of a swap 6 years ago. I still have it.
​https://en.numista.com/forum/topic18782.html#p145562

He reminds me a bit of Backyard Bullion. Great pieces of art!​

引用する: "ZacUK"​ Yes, redsmith is so clever - he made this for me as part of a swap 6 years ago. I still have it.
​https://en.numista.com/forum/topic18782.html#p145562

​That looks like his profile picture's maple leaf, is it?

引用する: "alfonz"​Just a nice portrait of my emperor ;). (Also a coin I really like)

​Your reply reminds me of that scene from War Horse where a German and British soldier flip a coin to decide who's going to take this horse from no man's land back to their trenches.

The exact words were: “That's the face of my Kaiser looking up at me out of the mud, and he does not look pleased with me."

引用する: "Numismatist uk"​My profile...
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​Why not have the whole reverse as your profile rather than just the rider?

Me departing Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. I made friends with the Dutch ISAF photographer when we landed, and he emailed me all off the takeoff and landing shots later that day. We delivered several pieces of the heavy equipment used to pave the runway.

Just my favourite coin. I really like the meaning behind its design. And I own one as well, one of only 5,000 minted.

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引用する: "Numismatist uk"​My profile...
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​​Why not have the whole reverse as your profile rather than just the rider?

Its the most iconic part and I was in a rush to crop it after a few failed goes​
Not the best at cropping on jpeg but I'm ok

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引用する: "ZacUK"​ Yes, redsmith is so clever - he made this for me as part of a swap 6 years ago. I still have it.
​​https://en.numista.com/forum/topic18782.html#p145562

​​That looks like his profile picture's maple leaf, is it?

​ It is one of them; mine is more brown and his is more yellow.
All lovely. Here are just some of those he makes ...

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引用する: "Numismatist uk"​My profile...
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​​​Why not have the whole reverse as your profile rather than just the rider?

​Its the most iconic part and I was in a rush to crop it after a few failed goes​
​Not the best at cropping on jpeg but I'm ok

​If you want better quality i can do this :

In my late teens, I got a bit overconfident in coin collecting and acquired three coins which I couldn't identify at first glance. Which was quite remarkable, because I knew the 1977 edition of the Standard Catalog of world coins by heart At home, I wasn't any more succesful in identifying, the main reason for it being the internet not having been invented yet.

And then I went studying, found a girl friend, a job, raised a kid and for 30 years, I didn't look at my collection.

When the virus got me again, one of the first things I wanted to take on was identifying this handful of coins. One of them was a heavily damaged coin with L C on one side and 1 Stuiver on the other. The coin looked as if someone had tried to drive a nail through it. All I knew was that it looked similar to an old and rare coin from Curaçao (KM#24).
Thanks to the internet (Numismaster), I found it within minutes, and thanks to Google I was able to find a lot more information on this token (which is actually one of three of a kind).

I chose the coin as my avatar on Numista because at the time many Numistans took the most expensive coin from their collection as an avatar. I felt the need for a silent protest by picking a low end coin (in Dutch, 'stuiver' is proverbial for cheap or no money), as if to demonstrate that small change has a right for attention, too. Being from a humble background, I might have mixed in some autobiographical emotional load.*
The flag of my nation I added years ago when someone from the Numista team suggested it was a good idea. There are still a few early members left with a flag in their avatar.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces28632.html

* I'm doing well now, btw., thanks.

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引用する: "Numismatist uk"​My profile...
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​​​​Why not have the whole reverse as your profile rather than just the rider?

​​Its the most iconic part and I was in a rush to crop it after a few failed goes​
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​​If you want better quality i can do this :
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Thanks, I left it be as I like the tarnish but I'll try to highlight if I get time over the weekend, very busy currently.​

引用する: "ArnoV"​I chose the coin as my avatar on Numista because at the time many Numistans took the most expensive coin from their collection as an avatar. I felt the need for a silent protest by picking a low end coin (in Dutch, 'stuiver' is proverbial for cheap or no money), as if to demonstrate that small change has a right for attention, too. Being from a humble background, I might have mixed in some autobiographical emotional load.*

​Sounds at least a little bit like why I chose my very common 1 Franc coin... I have been thinking of replacing it with my gold Rooster but I can ever seem to be bothered to take good pictures of it.

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引用する: "Numismatist uk"​My profile...
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​@Numismatistuk I would definitely replace pic with this high quality one if I were you.

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​​@Numismatistuk I would definitely replace pic with this high quality one if I were you.

​or at least take a good photo of your tarnished one and let him crop it for you. I like tarnish better too.

I'll see what I can do, I originally planned the whole coin but due to lack of time I settled on a quick fix.
Hopefully within this month or the next I'll get time.

<------Temporary change until I get time, the issue is the amount of pixels.

引用する: "redsmithstudios"​I make copper art, it’s a maple leaf I made.
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​I never knew that 1 who works with copper is a Redsmith. Interesting. Learn something new everyday.

Mine is Britannia holding an electric guitar instead of a trident. It's cropped from the cover art of a folk rock record by the Albion Dance Band. I found it amusing because it combines two of my current interests: coins (especially British predecimal) and traditional music (especially English).

My previous avatar was the obverse of the oldest coin in my collection, that I found in a bulk bin for about 15 cents, identified myself with help from this forum, and created the Numista page for:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces91638.html

My middle Hebrew name is Gabriel. Gabriel is an angel - hence the wings. Also, I am a private pilot and fly single engine aircraft so the wings fit well. I use the name Gabriel when I sign any of my hobby work. For example I love to woodwork and make wooden toys and the like. I also make pens from once fired .308 cartridge shells and wood. Whenever I sign my wood pieces I use the name Gabriel and the logo in my profile image but with the words "Handcrafted" Underneath.

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Here are some images of a no so recent (only images I have handy) flight up the Hudson River in NYC coming from my home airport (N-12) in NJ, about 10-15 minutes flying distance...

Mine is an Italian states Osella that I really like. For design, I think it ranks among my top 5.

引用する: "nthn"​Mine is an Italian states Osella that I really like. For design, I think it ranks among my top 5.

​Always thought that your pic was some kind of jeton, never knew it was a coin!

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引用する: "nthn"​Mine is an Italian states Osella that I really like. For design, I think it ranks among my top 5.

​​Always thought that your pic was some kind of jeton, never knew it was a coin!

​Here is the link. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces127085.html

They were non circulating presentation pieces, made every few years for different event, such as winning a battle, making a truce, etc.

On my picture you see my favorite letter from the Lithuanian alphabet. It is pronounced as long u, so as in English words boom,, groom, loom, room, zoom etc.
A coin-related Lithuanian word containing this letter is ačiū ("thank you") on this 2 Euro coin.

引用する: "aaronmgd"​My middle Hebrew name is Gabriel. Gabriel is an angel - hence the wings. Also, I am a private pilot and fly single engine aircraft so the wings fit well. I use the name Gabriel when I sign any of my hobby work. For example I love to woodwork and make wooden toys and the like. I also make pens from once fired .308 cartridge shells and wood. Whenever I sign my wood pieces I use the name Gabriel and the logo in my profile image but with the words "Handcrafted" Underneath.
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​Here are some images of a no so recent (only images I have handy) flight up the Hudson River in NYC coming from my home airport (N-12) in NJ, about 10-15 minutes flying distance...
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WOW!
Some great aerial pictures too.

I took a picture of a mockingbird at my local park.

引用する: "frankb"​I took a picture of a mockingbird at my local park.

​And a lovely animal it is too!

引用する: "aaronmgd"​My middle Hebrew name is Gabriel. Gabriel is an angel - hence the wings. Also, I am a private pilot and fly single engine aircraft so the wings fit well. I use the name Gabriel when I sign any of my hobby work. For example I love to woodwork and make wooden toys and the like. I also make pens from once fired .308 cartridge shells and wood. Whenever I sign my wood pieces I use the name Gabriel and the logo in my profile image but with the words "Handcrafted" Underneath.
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​My dear Aaron, it's a pleasure to call such a talented fellow my friend. I 'm in love with the cufflinks but being retired means dress shirts are but an uncomfortable memory.

引用する: "frankb"​I took a picture of a mockingbird at my local park.

​You must live in the south then! I hated mockingbirds when I was young because of the constant noise, moved away and missed them. Now we are back in Tennessee, and I always look for them.

LOL!!!

People message me this question all the time!
My reason is probably the dumbest and or one of the funniest...
My avatar is more about a song than anything...

"Blame Canada" is a song from a movie called, "South Park, Bigger, Louder and Uncut"

It's probably one of the most stupidest and funniest songs and movie I've ever seen or heard...
It makes me laugh endlessly!!!

The whole movie is completely hysterical and full of completely obnoxious toilet humor.
(My comedic cure for the even more insane world that you and I live in...)

...Obviously, I absolutely LOVE Canada and have a high admiration for all things Canadian.

The only thing that I find funnier aboot South Park is Terrance and Philip...devastating.

I would imagine most of you probably have no idea who they are or what South Park is or about...
Most people that dislike the show will pry just roll there eyes at me.
Those that love the show will probably get plenty of good laugh out of it...

And to further answer the questions of several others...no my favorite character is not "Timmy" (because like me, he is in a wheelchair LOL)

But that's the long and short of the reason for my name and avatar...

Still changing parts but understanding parts now, I'll do more over the week (bigger)

My profile picture isn't much of anything special. It's an 1857 Naples Piastra, I love the amount of history in a single coin, the deep gashes are adjustment marks, combined with an incredible number of die cracks and breaks running along the shield...
Lovely crown sized coin, probably still my favourite in my collection.

My laziness

引用する: "Numismatist uk"​Still changing parts but understanding parts now, I'll do more over the week (bigger)

​Still undecided I see?

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引用する: "Numismatist uk"​Still changing parts but understanding parts now, I'll do more over the week (bigger)

​​Still undecided I see?

Yeah....

I'm nearly finished uploading my collection so I'll probably turn my attentions to it after this week.

Mine is one of those color blindness tests, which contains hidden text (presumably -- I'm color-blind, so I'm still waiting for someone to tell me if it really contains a hidden image).

引用する: "swimmingly"​Mine is one of those color blindness tests, which contains hidden text (presumably -- I'm color-blind, so I'm still waiting for someone to tell me if it really contains a hidden image).

​I see a picture of Simba from the Lion King.

The coin in my Profile picture is a 1929 British Halfcrown in near EF condition. I have owned it for just under 2 years and it was the first piece in my British Half Crown collection. I brought it randomly online and loved it so much it rekindled my interest in Halfcrowns.

I now have over 100 different of them from 1635 to 1970 and Halfcrowns and Florins of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia.

I still own the coin and consider it an anchor of my collection, except back then it was alone, now its surrounded by older and much rarer coins - but its still special.

Love the olympics!😁😁😺

Mine is pretty obvious and also very basic. But it does show that I am Australian even though I was born a Yorkshireman.

Cheers Mike

Just a badge I found in a flee marked. Would love to know its history.

If anyone knows what this badge is, I would be grateful if they would let me know. It seems to be quite old.

Hi,

mine is a globetrotter identifying my life, working and living all over the world.

mine is the answer to your question

Mine is Vasil Levski.This is the greatest national hero of Bulgaria in our struggle against Turkish slavery.

Ah, I thought it was the USA actor Christopher Walken.

引用する: "coinmaniacbg"​Mine is Vasil Levski.This is the greatest national hero of Bulgaria in our struggle against Turkish slavery.

​I honestly thought it was this Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger:

actor who was in a lot of Hollywood action films.

Vasil Levski must have been a great help to the people of Bulgaria.

It has been very interesting to learn about so many of Numista members' avatars. Great thread.

Please read this if you are interested.But don't compare Vasil Levski with actors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasil_Levski

It's from a series of beer tokens from a brewery (Prima Brewing) in the Midwestern United States. They were issued back in the 1930's. I have 22 different versions (Each distributor would issue them with their contact info with the common design) with at least 3 other known ones. Combines two of my hobbies, numismatices and beer!

引用する: "coinmaniacbg"​Please read this if you are interested.But don't compare Vasil Levski with actors.
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I meant no disrespect. Vasil Levski is a fascinating historical figure & great to see he's been commemorated so often. Thanks (for sharing).​

My profile picture is a crop of a Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation $5 note I own. It is one of the rarer varieties, dated 1937 and having been hand-signed by the then-Chief Accountant of the bank. It's the first pre-war Hong Kong banknote to be added to my collection.

When the Japanese conquered Hong Kong in the last days of 1941, they outlawed the Hong Kong dollar and replaced it with the Japanese military yen, in addition to setting up a deadline for the locals to cash in their Hong Kong currency. As a result, only a fraction of these "hand-signed" notes saw the end of the Second World War.

This note had belonged to my late relative, and was gifted to me at the discretion of his widow sometime in March of 2018. I sometimes sit and wonder just how much it has been through.