Obverse

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.

II. Obverse ·adj The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it;

— the other side being the reverse.

III. Obverse ·adj Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.