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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;horge, post: 175004, member: 7167&quot;]Hi, Aidan <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>IIRC, that is merely a convention adopted by numismatists who wanted easier display/organization </p><p>of mounted/album&#039;ed specimens (assuming organization by date, of course) , as well as for more </p><p>readily-visible evidence of the &quot;United States connection&quot;&nbsp; in each and every mounted coin specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Officially, however...</p><p>The design was adopted (with very little change) from a proposal by artist Melecio Figueroa. </p><p>The face with the standing lady --supposedly Figueroa&#039;s daughter Blanca, as he imagined she </p><p>would be when she grew to womanhood, was plainly designated as being for the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is unambiguously noted by Shafer (1961), and several others.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>horge[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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