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<p>[QUOTE="GregH, post: 2402701, member: 75936"]I wonder if the right-facing-bias has something to do with the fact that writing in the Latin and Greek alphabets goes from left to right.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've also wondered why the portraits for an issue are often so uniform and standardised. The dies were engraved individually as far as we know - I wonder if there was some replication process involved when they made the dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GregH, post: 2402701, member: 75936"]I wonder if the right-facing-bias has something to do with the fact that writing in the Latin and Greek alphabets goes from left to right. I've also wondered why the portraits for an issue are often so uniform and standardised. The dies were engraved individually as far as we know - I wonder if there was some replication process involved when they made the dies.[/QUOTE]
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