Coin orientation is a feature of coins. When viewing one side of a coin with coin orientation, the coin must be flipped about its horizontal axis in order to see the other side the correct way up.
Coin Orientation
When the rotation axis of the two dies of a coin is 180 degrees. That is, when a coin's obverse is facing the viewer "right way up" and the coin is held at top and bottom and turned over, the reverse now appears "upside down".
that both sides were at the 12:00 o'clock position (a reverse of 360°) as is usual for medals; in most other Vermont varieties (except Bressett 7-F, RR 9 and varieties from Machin's Mills) the alignment is often close to the usual coin orientation of ...
Some coins have coin orientation, where the coin must be flipped vertically to see the other side; other coins, such as British coins, have medallic orientation, where the coin must be flipped horizontally to see the other side.
 See also: Orientation, Coinage, Half, Obverse, Struck
  
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