Mint Error- 2021-S Proof Innovation Dollar- Rotated Reverse
cmerlo1
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I bought this 2021-S Ralph Baer Innovation Dollar on eBay to frame with Mr. Baer's autograph. It arrived today and though I don't look for rotated dies I noticed it has a 90-degree rotated reverse. Are rotated dies on modern proofs rare? I searched eBay and Google and couldn't find another. rare or not I was planning to send it to ANACS anyway...
Edited to correct the rotation- it's 90 degrees.
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The way you are showing the coin, it is a 90-degree rotation.
Is it 45-degrees or 90-degrees as you have it pictured? Anything above 45-degrees is collectible. Nice find.
I was always bad at this. If I was more into rotated dies, I'd buy one of those gauges.
It's 90-degrees.
having it on a proof might be worth more
This Innovation Dollar is supposed to be held sideways with the line being vertical. Not an error or anything to get excited about...sorry.
@Kurisu posted his which was placed in the proper direction...
aw
Wow- I never would've thought that, and it doesn't really make any sense to me from a video game standpoint or any way else. Thank you for posting that!
I'm going to ask ANACS to mount it with the lettering properly oriented.
Think about the game pong and the orientation of the 'net'
Thats my best wag
It's all about what the people want...
"The design’s right side offers a depiction of Ralph Baer’s brown box game 'Handball'..." -- https://www.coinnews.net/2021/06/15/2021-american-innovation-dollars-for-new-hampshire-released/
The console was the Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercial home video game console, that Baer's team developed and released in 1972. There's some description of the game at Wikipedia, but not many videos available of the actual gameplay. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey
I found one rotated 360 degrees.