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• n  the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides
  the obverse of this issue
• n  the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design

• Nickel 2-lira: reverse, the Good Shepherd with sheep; obverse, the Papal Arms.
• New drachmas have been minted carrying the King's image; but in place of his coat of arms, the obverse side of the coin depicts the phoenix emblem of the revolution.
• But each of the 15 Eurozone countries has its own obverse, or national side, creating a total of 120 different coins in circulation.

• reverse

News & Articles

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• Dollar Store Accessories: Screen Protector
  Full disclosure: I don't entirely get the point of screen protectors. My screens, from touch-based to desktop, have all survived entirely fine until this moment without them. The dollar store iPad-specific screen protector comes with an entire page of directions on the obverse of the container. You clean the screen with the provided cloth ("in a dust-free environment"). You then pull back the ...
  Sept. 20, 2013 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Quotes

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• Colin Farrell in Telegraph.co.uk
  It was wonderful to be part of something that was well received in Sundance,says Farrell. "I have been on the obverse of that more than once and it's not nice. Sometimes you pour your heart and soul into something for six or seven months...
• Desmond Tutu in BBC News
  People have turned freedom into licence,Archbishop Tutu said, "and forget that freedom has its obverse - responsibility and obligation".
• Imre Salusinszky in Globe and Mail
  Two-headed coinsIn Australia, "there appears to be a virus of two-headed-coins -- or, to be numismatically correct, of coins with heads on both the obverse and the reverse," writes Imre Salusinszky in The Australian.