Editing Obverse and reverse (section)

===Coins of the United States===
The United States specifies what appears on the obverse and reverse of its currency. The specifications mentioned here imply the use of all upper-case letters, although they appear here in upper and lower case letters for the [[Typography|legibility]] of the article.

[[Image:1 us dollar 1979.jpg|thumb|[[Susan B. Anthony dollar|US dollar coin]], with the obverse side showing [[Susan B. Anthony]], the words "Liberty" and "[[In God We Trust]]", and the year 1979; the reverse side shows the words "one dollar", "United States of America", and "[[E Pluribus Unum]]", and retains the imagery of the [[Apollo 11#Insignia|Apollo 11]] mission insignia, previously used on the [[Eisenhower dollar]].]]
The [[United States government]] long adhered to including all of the following:
*Obverse:
**"[[Liberty (goddess)|Liberty]]"
**"In God We Trust"
** The four digits of a year, that of minting or issue
*Reverse:
**"United States of America"
**"''E Pluribus Unum''"
**Words (not digits) expressing the name or assigned value of the item, e.g., "quarter dollar", "one dime", "five cents"

The ten-year series of [[State Quarters|Statehood quarters]], whose issue began in 1999, was seen as calling for more space and more flexibility in the design of the reverse. A law specific to this series and the corresponding time period permits the following:
*Obverse:
**as before:
***"Liberty"
***"In God We Trust"
**instead of on the reverse:
***"United States of America"
***The words expressing the assigned value of the coin, "quarter dollar"
*Reverse:
**as before:
***"''E Pluribus Unum''"
**instead of on the obverse:
***The four digits of the year of issue