The crux of observing the obverse depends on making head or tail of it. If you have to take the opposite viewpoint in order to observe the obverse, then your current viewpoint is on the reverse side of the obverse. If the obverse is the principal side or the 'head' then is your normal viewpoint simply entailed? In our experience with coins, because the 'tails' side is the one with utility, indicating the monetary value of the coin, it has become the principal face instead of the 'heads' side. Are we reading the world in the same way as we read our coins? Are we always observing reversals of the obverse? Do we ever use the gaze of the other? Do we need to observe the obverse for the principal experience? On the other hand, if what we normally observe is the obverse, then we just have to be. A more intriguing option is to be the milled edge and engage both sides of the coin.
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