Medallic orientation

A feature of coins. When viewing one side of a coin with medallic orientation, the coin must be flipped horizontally in order to see the other side the correct way up.

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In Britain this is sometimes referred to as "British turnover" in recognition of the fact that British coins have medallic orientation.

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Compare coin orientation.

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