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Feb 27, 2024 - 01:15 PM
Old coins often featured an upside-down effigy or design on the reverse side due to the minting process. In early coin minting, coins were struck using hand-operated presses. The dies used to imprint designs onto the coins were manually inserted into the press, and sometimes they were not perfectly aligned. As a result, when the coin was struck, the reverse side could end up being oriented upside down relative to the obverse side. This occurrence was more common in older minting processes where precision and consistency were harder to achieve compared to modern minting techniques. Over time, advancements in minting technology have minimized this issue, resulting in coins with more consistently aligned designs on both sides.
This coin, however, is a 2023 mint, in which both the phoenix and the effigy are facing the same way.
