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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 3750929, member: 87404&quot;]In ancient coins, the alignment with the reverse often isn&#039;t aligned with the obverse. Certain empires, locations, times had documented trends in their alignment that can even help document their period of time and who struck them, be them 180 degrees, 0 degrees or any degrees. There was no official alignment standard in antiquity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why it is believed to have the trident facing upwards is based on the text that usually appears below in the fields around the shaft, and the direction of that text dictates it was facing upwards (see text on above examples).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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