Aren't there orientation directions ("This side up") for the people who "sonically seal" a customer's coin in NGC's graded holders? I've seen this before for other World Coins. I would think that this is a problem for NGC, right? I mean, the presentation of the coin in the holder is affected when the face of the coin appears upside down on the side where the information tag is visible. Even for those who don't understand the orientation of the Korean alphabet, I wouldn't expect that the "slabber dude" would think that the numeral, "50" should go upside down! Does this bother anybody else?
That one would drive me nuts. Can you send it back to get reholdered? Or, better yet, take it to a show and let them eat the shipping costs instead? It's annoying enough when a reverse is shown forward, but upside down...ugh!
That's why the graders, or whoever else knows better/is paid better, should attach to the coin flip a sticker that says, "This side up", before it gets to the sealing department.
That is another possibility that didn't come to mind right away. In my own limited experience with the plastic cores of NGC edge-view holders, they seem to be pretty "grippy" and you'd have to whack the holder quite hard to get the coin to shift. But they can shift! Perhaps the core was a hair smaller than 35mm?
Frankly I don't read Hangul, but I do know enough about that, Kanji and Mandarin to know the orientation of the characters. I like the colourisation of the coin, reminds me of the cloisonne coins from Korea in the late 19th century.
That's exactly what the designers of the coin were aiming for! They wanted it to look like an 1882 "Dae Dong Eun Jeon" coin.
