Posted 10/19/2010 3:10 pm
With the heads side up if the edge lettering is upside down it is position A. If the lettering is right side up it is position B. And as mentioned since the coins are struck and then go into the edge lettering machine in random orientation if you check a large sample of dollar you will find that the split between A and B is roughly 50/50. So some reason people have gotten worked up over the Position A/B thing on the new dollars but no one ever cared about it on the early Half Cents, large cents, half dollars or early dollars which all come with the same "Position A/B" phenomenon.
