Définition

• Foreground.  That part of a numismatic or medallic design which is most prominent and nearest to the viewer – most always the device or scene which contains the high points of such design. The foreground is in contrast to the background, which recedes from the viewer and behind the device; the background is the field (it is also the highest part of the die). Lettering is considered as neither foreground nor background.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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