Collecting british and canadian coins is a lot like collecting seated liberty coinage.

I was looking at my canadian type set I started and realized since i covered all the monarchs from victoria to elizabeth in cents and nickels that the quarters and halves were almost like collecting the different denominations of seated liberty coinage. Anyone else feel like that I am thinking of displaying reverses instead of obverses now

 

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That's exactly how I always put them in the 2x2's...

 

I've always thought of the picture of the queen or ruler as the back of a coin. All of my coins go in 2x2s with the ruler on the reverse and the side with original information on top. I don't need to see George VI 200 times.

 

You know, you just convinced me to put most of my British coins reverse side out. I really like seeing the dates, but was being ruled by what the book said was right. That being said, however, the old head Victoria coins will remain obverse side up. That is, to me anyway, the most attractive coin design I've ever seen.

 

What irritates me that people do is they'll list a British Empire coin on eBay without identifying it and they only post a photo of one side of the coin, and it's the side with the ruler. How are you supposed to know what that is? It could be from one of about 50 countries and any denomination? The other side has much more useful information.