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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1016135, member: 19463&quot;]To a purist, the obverse dies is always the anvil die (lower position). That means some coins were struck with a head on the tails side and something else on heads. Corinthian staters have Pegasus (flying horse) on the obverse and a head of Athena on the reverse. At Syracuse, tetradrachms have a chariot on the obverse and a head on the reverse. Obviously many people don&#039;t agree with this and you will see them sold with either side shown on the left in the image. The are even a few Antonine period bronzes which show a cupped field on the portrait and flatter obverse field suggesting that they were struck with portrait on the punch. Even the purists usually call the head on these obverse. Not all of us are consistent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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