Why is your avatar the way that it is............Please explain

CharlotteDude

I just like the look of this one...

'dude

thecointrader

Mine is a photograph of a pillow slipcover that sits in my study. A larger version -- in the form of a tapestry -- lines the inside of the door to the room.

SamByrd

One of my favorite BST buys.

Baley

That's the 1807 O-115 discovery coin, identified in late 2003 and confirmed in mid 2004, right here on this forum.

PipestonePete

My Dad's senior class portrait....1943.

Zoins

I like numismatic mysteries and my avatar appears to be quite the mystery so far!

AMRC

It used to be one of my favorites. Sold it a while ago. I should replace it with something, but just have not got around to it.

crazyhounddog

My avatar is my favorite buffalo nickel from my buffalo nickel collection. I bought it years ago from Andy at "Angel Dee's" along with many others.

Weiss

The Lydian "trite" is considered by many numismatic scholars to be the first coin ever made.
Twenty five years ago I named my company after the natural alloy of gold and silver from which these first coins were made.
I was fortunate to buy this trite raw over a decade ago from Chicago dealer Harlan Berk, who literally wrote the book about these dawn of coinage pieces. I had it slabbed a few months back:

Twobitcollector

It the latest fantasy from Dan Carr no particular reason, I'll change it when I get the PL version but then maybe not.

toyz4geo

My car back in the early 70's. In process of replicating it. That said, I am often torn where to put my limited funds.......coins or car.

coinhack

It is a poor photo of my favorite silver dollar.

shylock

I used the best IH image I could find in 2001, an 1899 NGC MS68RD from a Heritage auction.

https://coins.ha.com/itm/indian-cents/small-cents/1899-1c-ms68-red-ngc-we-have-handled-few-other-indian-cents-business-strikes-or-proofs-that-come-as-close-to-perfection/a/267-5342.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Overdate

A 1960-D small over large date cent. I wrote an article about it in Coin World in 1966 but it was decades before the coin was sufficiently recognized to be included in standard reference books.

ldhair

I lost mine back in 2001 when the site changed. At some point we were able to upload and add one to the list. PCGS had to look at them first because some were a bit over what the young folks should be seeing.
One of the members posted this image. Forgot who that was.
I cut it up and uploaded it. I still use it on all the different forums.
Edit to add. The original was made by Cosmic.

BryceM

A beautiful photo of a magnificent creature, taken by a good friend while we were staying at their ranch in Namibia.

bigmarty58

My avatar is a favorite coin design and the state I live in.

Ablinky

I use the nova because even though I don't always post in threads, it shows my "eye" is always on them.

shylock

Idhair - that was originally posted by me with the title "Feeding Time in the World Coin Forum".

WingedLiberty1957

The small size threw me for a loop. So I kept trying variations of my avatar until I found something that I liked at this thumbnail size. The winner for me was the central part of my favorite old US Currency Note -- the 1896 $5 Silver Certificate. Kind of conjures up visions of a Winged Liberty, which is my screen name.

Plus you have to love the era in this country when you could take this piece of paper to your local bank and get five of these:

topstuf

To illustrate my serious, contemplative, and intelligent nature.

ricko

This is a great thread.... although it happens every four or five years, it is good to either catch up or learn about members that have joined over that time...plus, the new members learn about those who have been here a while. Cheers, RickO

ajaan

Like TomB, my mushroom was one of the original avatars available. A forum member jazzed it up due to a thread about me started by a member on the darkside.

BIGAL2749

The colors on this little guy (H10c) both obv. + rev. thrill me every time I see the coin.

ronctx

This the only known photo of the Big Bang at the moment it happened, or it could also be just a defect on an old underexposed color slide.

ldhair

@shylock said:
Idhair - that was originally posted by me with the title "Feeding Time in the World Coin Forum".

Thank you. I was just looking at your site. Really cool work.

1630Boston

@ricko
I thought of this, as a new 'contributing' member to the forum while I was talking with @lordmarcovan

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Mark

Immediately after 9-11, all the members switched to the American flag. As the weeks and months passed, most changed to something else. I and a few others, have never changed. But for a period of time, ALL the icons were the same.

Desert Moon

One of my favorites. I searched for about a decade to find just the right one. And finally, oh there it was on DWN's site. But wait, it was already ON HOLD within seconds of the newp postings so I thought, okay another decade to wait. But a few days/weeks later, someone here posted the image. I PMed him/her and offered 10% over what they paid and they kindly accepted. So here it is below and it has a permanent home for at least the next decade.

Best, SH

CascadeChris

@Mark said:
Immediately after 9-11, all the members switched to the American flag. As the weeks and months passed, most changed to something else. I and a few others, have never changed. But for a period of time, ALL the icons were the same.

Remember all the cars with those window clip 8" flags. The country really felt truly united like none other that day and for many months after

topstuf

I just changed my avatar. (blush blush)

david3142

Mine is one of my favorite coins, and probably my most irreplaceable coin. It's also sentimental to me because I bought it raw and submitted it to NGC. It now sits in a 66* holder:

PTVETTER

I had a different one to start with until 9/11 on that day I changed it to the flag. God bless the USA

CoinZip

A friend made it for me...

OldIndianNutKase

I wanted to match my avatar to my online name, Old Indian Nut Kase. My avatar is the oldest indian proof that I own.

Justacommeman

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HandH

@Justacommeman said:

mark

Hey. This is cheating. This is not the same picture as your avatar. The beard is trimmed differently.

mvs7

My primary collection is San Francisco small denomination gold. The eagle and "S" mintmark are lifted from an 1850s-era quarter eagle. I stole the background color from the Pogue catalog art because I thought it looked good when contrasted with the gold foreground color.

Outhaul

How I feel when dealing with pedantic idiots on a daily basis.

ElKevvo

Good stories...mine is one of my favorite coins from my collection and is also probably the best coin photo I have taken as I am challenged in that area!

K

BIGAL2749

@david3142 said:
Mine is one of my favorite coins, and probably my most irreplaceable coin. It's also sentimental to me because I bought it raw and submitted it to NGC. It now sits in a 66* holder:

What a great coin! without the hard to believe toning that I see so often

Reminds me of what my finger looked like a few days after hitting it with a heavy hammer

nencoin

Six Superbowl appearances and four Championships in the last 15 years.

asheland

One of my favorite lion designs from the 1902 shilling.

LanceNewmanOCC

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because this eagle says, "the buck stops here."

for anyone that hasnt, click a user id to see a larger image of an avatar.
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RockyMtnProspector

One of my more favorite recent acquisitions.

MICHAELDIXON

My avatar is the first medal we made for the National Gettysburg Coin Show in 2014. From 2001 until the new boards we are on, I had a toned buffalo nickel reverse avatar and had wanted to change it. With the new boards, I decided to finally change from the toned buffalo to our show medal.

ADG

Michigan J. Frog from the Chuck Jones classic One Froggy Evening -- the Citizen Kane of cartoons.

jmski52

At the time I joined the forum, I was busy buying silver OBW rolls off ebay because they could be had for a nominal premium. I ran across a guy who was selling 1958 & 1959 Chase Manhattan rolls and I noticed that many of the end coins were toned. My avatar is one of the nicer ones, and it is still in the original roll as I found it.

CascadeChris

@ADG said:
Michigan J. Frog from the Chuck Jones classic One Froggy Evening -- the Citizen Kane of cartoons.

Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my rag pie gal