Coin orientation reasoning

I have noticed that some coins, like many Spanish pesetas, Swiss Francs and Nederland cents have orientation that flips as you turn the coins, marked with one arrow up, other down in the info sheet here. In my personal opinion this is annoying, even imagining that kind of thing in Euro, for example, would be terrible. So why have some countries with some coins desided for this orientation? Is this historically common?

Ohhh I thought you were talking about something wrong with the website.

Aha well coin orientation is commonly used by France and medal used by British. What I'm thinking is that it's based on historical dispute between different nations. France and the UK used to hate each other, so that probably explains why they have opposite orientation. My best bet for old Japanese coins being coin oriented is probably because they bought the machinery from the US, and then they went medal oriented to copy the British.

Medal orientation makes more sense if you are rotating the coin between your fingertips.  Coin orientation makes more sense while turning the coin over while it lies on a flat surface.

Our coins used to be coin orientation but it's now all medal.

Verweis : SmartOneKgOhhh I thought you were talking about something wrong with the website.

Oh yes, my friend
Historically there was no clear orientation at all.
So, Numista misses an important function for medieval or ancient coins: The indication of die axis.
Medal is 0°; Coin is 180°, hence the arrows represent 2 options only, but there is indeed a great variety.

A lot of the medieval and ancient coins have 270° or 90°, and currently there is no way to indicate that in Numista, unless you add this to the observe text, like here:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces34808.html

If Numista one day will become a professional numismatic site, at least there shall be a field to enter that data.