Avers 上市 Deposited
from the Latin adversus , i.e., facing. The same as obverse (q.v.). The term is used as early as the year 1715 in the catalogue of an auction sale of coins held at Gotha in Saxony. See Berliner Munzblatter (No. 141).
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)