Coin orientation term [solved]

When a coin is upside down when you turn it over it is given the term of a ‘medal orientation.’

Now why is this term used instead if saying Obv rotated 180 degrees or something similar?

All the Australian coins have the medal orientation, however this still makes them coins except they do not have a coin orientation.

This is may seem like I just want a dispute over what word is used, but I can tell you I don’t, I would just like to know why it is this term of all the words/phrases they could have chosen.

Look forward to your answers.

Kindest regards

Ben

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_orientation

When wearing a medal, for it 'to display properly, when the obverse of the medal is right side up, a left or right turn must show the reverse also to be right side up'. ↑↑

The term comes from a region where coins are rotated (USA, France and a few more in the past) simply as that in most other places it doesn't make sense.

I have the following mnemonic:

• a medal hangs on a string or a ribbon, so obverse and reverse must have the same side up
  
• a bet can be made by flipping a coin: put it on your thumb and index finger and shoot, in which case the reverse will be readable if it is upside down with respect to the obverse
  

That certainly makes more sense now.

Thanks all for you help in clarifying.