ASE question

got my 1st ASE today. have never seen one till today. just a quick question about something i noticed straight away about this coin. when you flip it over like any other coin i've ever handled the reverse side is upside down. all the australian legal tender coins and other silver coins i've seen, (maple and britannia) if flipped on vertical axis show the opposite side the same way up. the ASE i have needs to be flipped on the horizontal axis to view the opposite side the right way up. feels alien having to flip it like that. is this just an american, "we have to be different" thing? for all i know all their coins could be like this.
just thought it was odd.

 

Americanzzz ... they like to differ ))
good thing is when you flip horizontally you don't need to turn

 

have you seen 'em drive? on the wrong side of the road, they must all be left handed.
that's probably why, as if you try and flip the coin with your left hand, it flops and appears normal.

 

there you go. you learn something everyday.

cheers, guys.

 

I've heard this is only true if you take an American coin south of the equator. Up here it's like Australian coins...I swear.

 

It only looks upside down because you live in AU.

 

This was asked before a good while ago and it had something to do with medal and coin alignment. Medals will always have both sides facing same way but coins from some countries (such as the US) use coin alignment to show the opposite of medal alignment.

Seems the ASE is minted with the coin alignment purely because of tradition as this is how most US coins were issued 'back in the day'.

 

Coin vs Medallion orientation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medallic_orientation

 

I noticed something similar on one of my coins the other day though I can't recall which one, oddly enough I have 5 ASE's and didn't notice.

Has anyone also noticed the first year of issue ASE is not minted as sharp as the later versions too? (least mine seems less well defined compared to the later issues I have from 2012)