1966 Tilted Obverse? Portrait Not Aligned Properly.

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canadacoins201 Valued Member Canada 97 Posts	Posted 03/03/2018 11:17 am I have a 1966 nickel where the portrait is tilted from the reverse. The pictures explain everything. What kind of error is this, is it rare, and how much is it worth? Report this Post to the Staff

john100 Pillar of the Community Canada 5324 Posts	Posted 03/03/2018 11:26 am Just a coin with about 15% rotation, not much value, need to be 45 to 180 rotations to be worth a lot Report this Post to the Staff
JimmyD Bedrock of the Community Canada 21684 Posts	Posted 03/03/2018 11:36 am It's called a die rotation. As John100 says, not rotated enough to have any extra value. Slight rotations are fairly common. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10464 Posts	Posted 03/03/2018 11:45 am Tolerances at the mint up to the late 1980s was somewhere between 12-15 degrees... anything more than that, carries a premium, with 180 degrees being the most sought after. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
canadacoins201 Valued Member Canada 97 Posts	Posted 03/03/2018 12:21 pm Thanks everyone! I'll keep looking :) Report this Post to the Staff
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