X-Nico

unusual facts about obverse and reverse



Manx pound

These issues of coins have the crest of the Stanley family, Lords of Mann, on the obverse (an eagle and child on a cap), together with the Stanley family motto, "Sans Changer".

Medal of Liberty

On the obverse of the medal is the bust of Frédéric Bartholdi, facing slightly to the right and holding in his right hand his small bronze sculpture of Lady Liberty, his template for construction of the Statue of Liberty National Monument at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor.

New Zealand Defence Meritorious Service Medal

The obverse of the medal bears the effigy of the Sovereign, currently the effigy designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, surrounded by the Royal Styles and Titles for New Zealand.

Nicaraguan fifty-cordoba note

On the obverse is Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal and on the reverse is the fortress of El Castillo de la Inmaculada Concepción.

Petru II of Moldavia

Obverse: Aurochs head, frontal view, a star between the horns, a rose on the right, a crescent on the left.

Tasgetius

The coin depicts on its obverse a crowned head of "Apollo" with a three-lobed ivy leaf, a usual symbol of Dionysus, and the name or cult title ΕΛΚΕSΟΟΥΙΞ (Elkesovix).


see also