At 14:41 -0800 01/12/16, Bill Potts wrote: >The English word, "backside," refers to one's posterior, bum, butt, or, in >French, fesse. > >The back side (two words) of a coin is called the "reverse," with the front >side being the "obverse." > >Now, if someone would like to start an off-topic discussion of the backsides >of famous beauties throughout history, that might be interesting. <g>
Thanks, Bill, today I learnt something ! In French we say "pile" for the side bearing the value of the coin and "face" for the side with the picture of the emitter of the coin (I checked in my "Littr�"). Therefore for euro coins the "national side" is the "face". But referring to the English expression "face value", it should be the reverse ? Unless "fesse" in French sounds like "face" in English ? Louis
