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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1260796, member: 19463&quot;]I prefer to call the obverse the side that was on the anvil or bottom die and the reverse the top or punch but there are some examples of this where the evidence is not conclusive or it is not worth a fight over such a matter.&nbsp; Standard references recognize that the head on silver of Syracuse and Corinth was on the reverse so I certainly go with that but there are some sestertii of the late Antonines that look to be reverse headed (cupped field tend to be on the reverse and flat fields on obverse) but I still call them all obverse portraits.&nbsp; My new favorite cheap coin is the bull and horseman jital but I really believe the bull was the reverse so I suppose I should call them the horseman and bull coins.&nbsp; I don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.&quot; Emerson[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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