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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 2674987, member: 20480&quot;]A good coin designer orients elements of the design to be volumetrically complimentary side-to-side, so as to balance the radial flow of the struck planchet as much as possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>I infer that to be the reason that Monticello, a predominantly horizontal element, was chosen for the reverse to compliment the predominantly vertical bust of Jefferson.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a normally struck Jefferson nickel (Jefferson obverse and Monticello reverse, of course), the deepest recesses in the dies would be oriented perpendicularly, promoting the desired definition of Jefferson, Monticello and legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a Jefferson nickel rotated 90 degrees (Jefferson obverse and Monticello reverse, again), the deepest recesses in the dies would be aligned with each other, promoting unconstrained metal flow North and South, and more constrained flow East and West than normal.&nbsp; The result would be poor definition of both the portrait and Monticello, but good definition of the date and legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>On an obverse / obverse coin such as we are discussing, but not rotated at all, the deepest recesses of both front and back would be similarly aligned, producing terrible portrait detail, and very strong legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rotating one side of that last example by 90 degrees to better constrain metal flow would likely produce a nearly normal level of detail on both sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>While 60 degrees of rotation is certainly not 90 degrees, I believe 60 degrees should have greatly improved the detail rendered to the subject coin . . . yet that is not what we are seeing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who out there can convince me that my expectations are unrealistic?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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