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krupski60 Valued Member United States 80 Posts	Posted 05/04/2012 12:32 pm i am trying to measure die rotation on some of my coins. so using photo shop and some images from the web I came up with this. let me know what you think, whether this is a good way to approximate rotation or not. tanks, i shot 1983 over mirror. cropped obverse and reverse. flipped reverse. then I supper imposed these two images, from web, on obverse to align. I used "LIBERTY" as straight edge. using the second image I centered it on "0" with first image. i then copied the degrees layer I centered on first and superimposed on reverse. is the approximate rotation 35-40 degrees of rotation? what do you think? Report this Post to the Staff

wert Rest in Peace 1988 Posts	Posted 05/04/2012 12:52 pm Hi krupski60...Good work. I am not trying to be bossy, but if you use a software called Shotwell you can find out the rotation up to 15 degrees with one click of the mouse...It is free to Window and Mac users also. See left coin I tilted slightly and the results on the right coin with rotation degrees at the bottom. Total of 3.6 degrees. Edited by wert 05/04/2012 12:53 pm Report this Post to the Staff
southsav Pillar of the Community 2224 Posts	Posted 05/04/2012 1:07 pm I'm not a geometry whiz so I need it explained on a 5 year old level. I followed your set up procedure but in the end not sure where your question of 35-40 deg came from. I think someone may have posted a tool on this before, I just can't find it. Nice job! I don't think rotations less than 90 deg have much value, I'm just not all that familiar with that area. Report this Post to the Staff
southsav Pillar of the Community 2224 Posts	Posted 05/04/2012 1:09 pm Here is one prior post https://goccf.com/t/117525#117525 Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 05/04/2012 3:51 pm Still not strong enough to deserve a premium. 90 degrees and over would make it more valuable. Report this Post to the Staff
krupski60 Valued Member United States 80 Posts	Posted 05/04/2012 7:11 pm tanks all, will follow up with software. tanks, again Report this Post to the Staff
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