Walker Headed The Wrong Way?

Weird to say the least. Photos would be nice. What's the date?

Just turn the coin around; then she is facing east!

I think it was one of those errors that noone every really thought about, and after it may have been addressed it was too late to go back

If your standing with your back to the North she is facing East. If you stand with your back to the South she is facing West. The person designing her must have had his back to the North. If you lay her on a map, yes she faces West but that may not have been how she was designed.

This reminds me of a story about Ben Franklin at the Constitutional Convention and this chair that George Washington sat in to preside: http://www.ushistory.org/more/sun.htm

Someone asked Franklin after the Constitution was finally ratified why he had been so engrossed in that chair. Franklin said, I could never tell if that was a rising sun or a setting sun, and commented that artisans have a hard time distinguishing them in their artwork. But following the accomplishment of the Constitution "Now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising sun and not a setting sun."

On the dies she'd be facing the right way...right? Maybe whoever engraved the die was dyslectic...or just forgot that everything would be backwards when the coin was stamped out.

It's amazing that none of you get it.

Lady Liberty is facing north and turned toward the east. The sun is rising to her right hand.

When you stand facing north, the sun will rise on your right-hand side; the east.

You are trying to see this from YOUR perspective, not hers. If you were to stand in front of her and view her (exactly as you do on this coin!) you would be facing south. That would put the rising sun on YOUR left side just as it is depicted.

I doubt the engravers and all involved were unaware of reverse images, and reverse reverse imasges.

The orientation of the coin is correct.

Steve

I concure.