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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 175097, member: 112"]That's just it, I didn't. I turned it right side up.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's the beauty of having a coin in a slab, the top is always the top. Think about it, if the coin were pictured obverse side up, Liberty's head would be at the top of the slab, yes ? OK, the top of the slab is the part with the label on it. And if you put the top of the slab at the top of the picture then on the reverse the image is inverted, just like it susposed to be. So if you want to see how far out of rotation the reverse of a coin is, then the image on the reverse should be upside down. <u>Then</u> you measure the degrees out of rotation and either right or left. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is because if the coin were struck with the correct orientation, the obverse and the reverse should be exactly 180 degrees rotated in relation to each other. In other words, the top of Liberty's head should line up with the center of the Eagle's tail. So to measure the degree of rotation Liberty's head shoulld remain oreinted at the top whether obverse side up or down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 175097, member: 112"]That's just it, I didn't. I turned it right side up. That's the beauty of having a coin in a slab, the top is always the top. Think about it, if the coin were pictured obverse side up, Liberty's head would be at the top of the slab, yes ? OK, the top of the slab is the part with the label on it. And if you put the top of the slab at the top of the picture then on the reverse the image is inverted, just like it susposed to be. So if you want to see how far out of rotation the reverse of a coin is, then the image on the reverse should be upside down. [U]Then[/U] you measure the degrees out of rotation and either right or left. This is because if the coin were struck with the correct orientation, the obverse and the reverse should be exactly 180 degrees rotated in relation to each other. In other words, the top of Liberty's head should line up with the center of the Eagle's tail. So to measure the degree of rotation Liberty's head shoulld remain oreinted at the top whether obverse side up or down.[/QUOTE]
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