Obverse and Reverse

[moonmoth]

Here's an interesting thing. (To me, anyway!)

The question of which side is obverse and which is reverse on "Greek" coins does not always have a clear answer.  It might be settled by looking at which die has produced which side.   But here are two coins of the same type, of Antiochos VII,  in which that does not seem to be consistent ..  I'm not making any conjectures.  I don't know enough about these coins.  But I haven't noticed this before.

[bpmurphy]

These were struck on cast flans with beveled edges. The difference between these two coins is the way the flan was put between the two dies, not which die was the anvil die.

Barry Murphy

[moonmoth]

Aha, that would explain it indeed.  Thanks, Barry.