1) The theme of my design is “Nature & Fluidity”. It is inspired by flora and fauna, however with a modernist interpretation that is relevant to Numista. So you have geometry in the honeycomb and fluidity in the waves Every element in the design is my own artwork and not copy-pasted from the Internet. I have been very conscious to prepare a design that is aesthetic but not overly complicated when the mint has to reproduce the design on silver and copper tokens
2) The reverse has a partial honey comb with the numeral “10” enclosed in a circle and surrounded by 12 stars.
a. The partial honeycomb is illustrates the co-operation of hundreds of numista members building a platform for the benefit of the community
b. The blank spaces around the honeycomb indicate that while much has been accomplished, numista is a work in progress and there is room of development
c. The 12 stars indicate the 12 months of the year that numista is “buzzing” with activity. The circle alludes to continuity and structure.
d. The bold “10” is the centre piece of the reverse to emphasise the event being commemorative
3) The obverse has symmetrical stylised waves at the top and bottom with a circle in the middle that contains a compass surrounded by several scripts separated by small dots. There is a commemorative bilingual edge inscription along the rim separated by 2 stars
a. The compass alludes to the international character of numista that members come from all 4 corners of the world. The compass is bilingual with “ouest” and “west” written as a “W” within an “O”. It also lends well to the nautical feel of the obverse
b. “Numista” is written in 5 scripts viz. Latin, Cyrillic, Devnagari and Arabic. These scripts appear on multiple countries coinage (I have excluded Hebrew, Amharic, thai etc because they do not pass this criteria. I considered including Tamil, but thought it unnecessary). Again this is a re-emphasis of Numista’s international community
c. The stylised waves carry 2 meanings
i. They indicate the oceans on either sides of the word with the central numista circle connecting both of them; an illustration of how numista has brought people together whether its to share research or simply swap coins
ii. They also can be interpreted as waves of digital data travelling across the world and the fact that thanks to the internet, numista has been able to thrive. This second interpretation indicates the virtual nature of Numista
d. The inscription along the rim says “Celebrating a decade of learning and friendship through numismatics” in French and English. I personally think this encapsulates well the benefits of numista...helping people swap, form relationships, learn about other cultures, share knowledge and research and better their numismatic understanding and collection
4) You may recognise the honeycomb from the Croatian 25Kuna coin, the stars from the euro coins, and the stylised waves from the Rs5 coin of India. The beads along the rim of the obverse and reverse are inspired by Canadian coins.
5) Everything you see in black and grey would be frosted
Nice, thanks! 
