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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2493033, member: 39"]The world today <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> does not do it this way. In earlier years, some countries preferred what in the US is called coin alignment while elsewhere "medal" alignment was the preferred one. Today pretty much every country uses the ↑↑ orientation - so you turn a coin just as you turn a note, even a US dollar bill. Whether that alignment has technical or aesthetic reasons, I don't know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2493033, member: 39"]The world today ;) does not do it this way. In earlier years, some countries preferred what in the US is called coin alignment while elsewhere "medal" alignment was the preferred one. Today pretty much every country uses the ↑↑ orientation - so you turn a coin just as you turn a note, even a US dollar bill. Whether that alignment has technical or aesthetic reasons, I don't know. Christian[/QUOTE]
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