Clean 73 slight die rotation.

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Familycoins
Familycoins Posts: 17 ✭
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Good day all!!

My thoughts go out to everyone in Hawaii!! Please be safe and look out for each other!!

So, I have been reading up on all the amazing coins everyone has on here... Some are absolutely stunning and I would love to have them in my collection!! Others, are so far out of my ability to own, I can only dream about them! So, I was kind of skeptical to put this one I recently found on here... I figure it would be so BLAH to most, why bother... Ya know?!

But, I'm curious to what the experts think about it... So, here it is...

I found this looking thru a friends change he was going to turn into the coin star type machine at the bank... It look super nice for a 73, so I put it aside for my keepers.... I only noticed the rotation after I put it in the 2x2... My question is how much rotation would be considered an actual error? I would figure there is some "gray area" that is allowed to still be "error free"....

Thanks!!

Have a super great one everyone!!!

Cheers!!

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  • Jcld
    Jcld Posts: 449 ✭✭✭
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    http://www.lincolncentresource.com/Errors/RotatedDies.html

    The U.S. Mint allows for an error margin of less
    than 8 degrees. Rotated die errors are usually not
    collectible unless they are at least 15 degrees.
    Rotated die errors are most valuable after 90
    degrees with 180 degrees being the most
    valuable.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yes... as @Jcld has said, rotation really needs to be radical to be of collector value...Yours is minor, but interesting, and I would retain it as a teaching piece. Cheers, RickO

  • FredWeinberg
    FredWeinberg Posts: 6,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That wording on the Linc Cent Resource Guide
    is incorrect, in my opinion.

    When I did floor tours of the Mint, there were
    signs that said the tolerance for Die Rotation
    was 27 degrees, (on the sign), not 8 degrees.

    And, in my experience, the vast majority of
    collectors, of type coin or modern coin rotated
    reverses want them to be a minimum of 45 degrees.

    (that's the reverse pointing to either 1:30 or 10:30,
    depending on if it's a rotated or counter-clockwise
    rotated, reverse.)

    The OP's cent is well within tolerance, in my opinion.

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • Timbuk3
    Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Aloha and Mahalo (Thanks) !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • Insider2
    Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Familycoins

    Make sure you crush the backs of the staples flat with a pliers. Less chance of scratching another coin.

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