Post a coin featuring a human being

So, in the spirit of other "post a coin that matches the theme" threads, here is a thread for posting coins that depict the well-known species Homo sapiens.

BUT!!

There is a restriction! (so that this thread is not entirely trivial!)

For too long have we seen monarchs and politicians on coins - but why? Surely we can identify more with the working class?

So the real rules of this thread: post a coin in this thread featuring a human being who is not a named historical figure. Allegorical depictions of Liberty or Justice and the like are also OK to post. But no kings or queens or founding fathers or founding mothers or anything like that! No, this thread celebrates those often-underappreciated depictions of generic and fictional people.



Apparently this hard-working man from Luxembourg is an iron puddler.



From communist Poland we get this fisherman. It's rare to see an aluminum coin that actually had effort put into the design.



Two unnamed Indian flagbearers celebrating the 25th anniversary of the republic.



We see a lot of American Liberty, but here is her younger (and better-looking) sister Colombian Liberty.



I have no idea if the woman on this classic is Liberty or Italia or Justice or whatever, but it is a nice-looking coin. (So: it's OK if a coin has a monarch on it as long as the other side depicts something more relevant to the theme of this thread)

Happy posting!

Some FAO series coins showing ordinary people

1] Bhutan - 15 Ngultrums - 1974
Man working in rice field

 

2] Bhutan - 30 Ngultrums - 1975
International Women's Year

 

3] Rwanda - 200 Francs - 1972
Two men shaking hands and a rwandan flag in post
A man working on a plantation

 

4] Tunisia - 1 Dinar - 1970
Farmer working in fields

 

UK 2006 50 Pence - Heroic Actions


(Have I opened a can of worms by posting a 50p?)

Sovjet Union: 1924 rouble



https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7401.html

I guess very many coins qualify for this thread. Even many coins from a Kingdom have a person (allegorical or not) other than the monarch on them. Most pre-1980 Belgian coins were like that.

Brazil 2000 Réis 1928


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6131.html

Chile 5 Pesos 1988

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces3761.html

Paraguay 5 Guaraníes 1975

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces5154.html

Panama 1 Balboa 1947

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18304.html

Austria 10 Schilling 1957

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1941.html

Peru 1 Sol 1926

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4639.html

España 2 Pesetas 1874

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4010.html

Here is one of those heroic communist blacksmiths, rightfully resting after his heavy work:

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1891 - 2 Centavos - Argentina    |        1902 - 1 Cent - USA           |     1912 - 5 Centimes - France
                    Liberty                    |                 Indian                       |  Marianne/Liberty + Woman & Child



2004 - 10 Francs - Western Africa | 2004 - 25 Francs - Western Africa |    1954 - 50 Francs - Belgium
 Women and child pumping water    |         Woman filling something         |         Mercury




1922 - 50 Santimu - Latvia          |  1955 - 10 Dinara - Yugoslawia    |  1933 - 50 Centimes - Belgium
             Woman holding tiller        |         Woman holding wheat           |            Nealing woman



1979 - 20 Mark - GDR                |         1993 - 50 Avos - Macau       |       1951 - 5 Fillér - Hungary
       Female and male Worker     |           people dragondancing         |       Young hungarian girl

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More like coin pr0n!

Some beautiful looking coins there.

Mexico -1968

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces19143.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1160.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18524.html   Britannia silver with gold


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces53188.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces65663.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces26057.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1118.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces982.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1173.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces177.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4327.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2220.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces180.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1958.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11150.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces682.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2595.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces5743.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6378.html


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2689.html


 That will do - I left others out.  

As far as I am concerned, there is a slight chance that I might recognize a not completely unknown face in this list

As Imre already pointed out, in Eastern Europe, ex Communist Block, a lot of art including coin engraving was focused on the "worker" "farmer" and "soldier" I want to illustrate here a coin which depicts an unknown WWII communist Partisan fighting a German Nazi soldier. This coin is engraved after a famous sculpture.




Engraved in 1969 for the 25th anniversary of Liberation from Nazi WWII in 1945, commemorative circulation coin. Minted in China. The sculpture, see images below, was done from famous Albanian sculptor Odhise Paskali, and it was donated from the than Communist Albanian government to the memorial of the ex Mathausen Concentration Camp in today's Austria, where it is still today. It is entitled "The Victorious Partisan" It is not a real Partisan, I mean there is no story behind him other than the sculpture. I find it nice, and suitable to the topic, representing a non famous human being.

 I've shown a lot of my coins on here (maybe too many - lol) so to keep this topic going here are a few of my medallions this time, that do not show famous people, just normal everyday people ...







 Those will do - I have others with just a female head depicting France, like Gallia or Marianne etc.

Thank you Zac, these might be the last pics of historic medallions, as your teammate Florian went raging around deleting them.
A sad goodbye to them.
inspired me to start this: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic34318.html

Any Roman Spintriae, although not going to post any pictures.  

Hi

I found a few pics with people on them but then read the conditions so put most of them back in the folder!!

Just these then!!






I only have a few pics of a few of my coins as I find them very difficult to photgraph successfully!!  


John  

Hungary, 1 korona, 1896 (Millennium)
Just a generic bunch of Magyars here.

Indonesia, 100 rupiah, 1996
And a generic bunch of Indonesian bull-runners.