Most of you know there are two types of alignment. One is called medal alignment and I forget the other one. But basically what it means is when you flip from one side to the other, do you need to turn it around to have the right side up or are both sides facing the same direction? Anyway, I was scanning some coins today, and when you are scanning you notice which alignment they have, and it is usually consistent. For example, French and Mexican coins always have to be flipped. Well, the coins I was scanning today were all Swiss, and every Swiss coin I can remember seeing is facing the same direction. There were two 2 francs coins. The 1990 is facing the same direction, but the 1969 had the opposite alignment. Does anyone know if this is an error or was it different this year? Krause doesn't say anything about the alignment. And if it is an error, does it matter?
1968-1981should be coin alingment. 1982 on are medal alignment. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces189.html
These days the coins from pretty much every country use parallel (↑↑) alignment, except the US and South Korea (maybe Thailand too, not sure). Switzerland used to be a special case as the centime/rappen coins have had this parallel alignment since, uh, 1880 or so, while the franc/franken coins used the opposite alignment (↑↓). That changed in 1982, as sonlarson wrote; since then all Swiss coins have had this parallel orientation. Christian
