Proof rotated reverse??? Pics

Shocker · February 11, 2003 1:45PM

Just completely stumbled on this auction and was hitting the "back" buttton when I did a doubletake. Here are a couple of snapshots of the dime in the proof set. Assuming this is real, is there value in this coin?

cladking · February 11, 2003 8:40PM

Looks interesting. There's a known 1970 RR dime but that's not the date
of your coin. Try to be sure there aren't two dimes in the slot and one is
turned to the other. What's the date?

RotatedRainbows · February 11, 2003 9:43PM

I own a number of proof Kennedy's with dies rotated 180° the 1973 listed below (there are others known for this date) and I have a 1984 Kennedy rotated 180° and I sold another 1984 last year that was rotated 90°. I have never heard of a dime with any type of major rotation and looking at the picture it really appears the dime is just rotated a little in the package, even if there is slight rotation I don't see it being enough to add any value to it.

Shocker · February 12, 2003 2:03AM

Does the rotation need to be 180 degrees for collectors? I really don't know that much about rotated dies. I would think that every rotated die would be caught since all of us look at the front of the set, then flip it over to check out the reverses. I haven't purchased this yet. It's on eBay and the seller doesn't mention anything about the rotation in the auction. I'm going to buy it just because it looks interesting enough to want to check out in person... and it's cheap.

Shocker · February 12, 2003 2:05AM

If the pictures are correct, the rotation looks to be about 50% or so. Is that correct or am I just clueless about rotated dies?

RotatedRainbows · February 12, 2003 3:10AM

Does the rotation need to be 180 degrees for collectors?

No it does not, some collectors will buy pieces with rotations as little as 45° but anything under that seems to have little interest or extra value. The real value starts when coins are rotated 90° or more. Looking at the picture of the obverse you can see it is not straight (rotated in the package around 20° which accounts for about half the rotation seen on the reverse so my guess would be the piece has rotation of no more then 20°-25° counter clockwise. If it is any less then it could fall within the mint tolerence of 15° which would mean it is not an error at all.

Proof rotated reverse??? Pics

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