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Obverse   /əbvˈərs/   Listen
Obverse

noun
1.
The more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides.
2.
The side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design.





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"Obverse" Quotes from Famous Books



... Obverse: Area. "There is no ilh but Allah: He is one: He hath no partner." Circle. "Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah who hath sent him with the true Guidance and Religion that he manifest it above all ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
... City of London, a medal was struck to commemorate the event, having on the obverse a profile portrait of Prince Albert, with the legend "Albertus ubique honoratus," the reverse having a view of the western portico of the Exchange. On 13 Jan. Mr. Roach Smith exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries a medalet, found on the site of the Exchange, evidently ...
— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton
... previously prevailed in Lydia. His "darics," as they were called by the Greeks, were, in the first instance, gold coins of a rude type, a little heavier than our sovereigns, weighing between 123 and 124 grains troy.[14271] They bore the figure of an archer on the obverse, and on the reverse a very rough and primitive quadratum incusum. Darius must have coined them in vast abundance, since early in the reign of his successor a single individual of no great eminence ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson


Words linked to "Obverse" :   head, alternative, coin, reverse, side, choice, option


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