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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 217371, member: 4626&quot;]I&#039;m sure a more expert person on British coinage can verify this, but I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve ever seen Pistrucci&#039;s &quot;St. George Slaying the Dragon&quot; on a penny; I&#039;ve only ever seen it as the reverse of crowns and sovereigns.&nbsp; Though I suppose the term may have originated from them rather than the penny.&nbsp; However it seems a rather dubious explanation... I think seeing &quot;tails&quot; as opposite of &quot;heads&quot; probably doesn&#039;t have much to do with a tail being on the reverse of the coin so much as it&#039;s a result of figurative wordplay; an animal has a head, the opposite end has the tail, and I think it was applied to coins that way, treating the side with a head on it as &quot;heads&quot; and the opposite side as &quot;tails&quot; even though it didn&#039;t necessarily depict a tail.&nbsp; Just my guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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