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Pillar of the Community
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I believe this rotated die is close to 260 deg. If so, it would be the best example of it's kind in my collection.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Is there something that I missed or there very little interest in rotated dies?
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Pillar of the Community
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I think it's neat but have zero info to add.
The website rotateddies.com no longer works so I have no idea if this is known/reported.
Cool nonetheless.
-MV
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Is there something that I missed or there very little interest in rotated dies?
You missed the fact that it's the Christmas Holiday and nobody's here.  Shield nickels aren't as common rotated as some other issues but they're not hard to find; most every coin has rotated examples. Generally, yours will be described as "80 Clockwise" as opposed to "260" because the implication is that a 260-degree rotation is somehow "better." It's not; it's just the direction the die decided to rotate that time. It could just as easily have gone the other way. |
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Pillar of the Community
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very cool rotation...  I am a novice but is that judd-497 pattern |
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I am a novice but is that judd-497 pattern Nope - J-497 has the date divided into two pieces by a much lower dot at the bottom of the shield. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Gotcha, SsuperDdave but I posted 3 other topics yesterday and I got responses on those, just figured that the pictures may not be good enough.
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Not at all, man. We've been pretty slow the last few days as you might imagine, and some threads aren't getting the attention they deserve. After New Year's weekend, I'm going to go through the first page of various forums and bump some stuff I thought didn't get enough attention. A lot of times folks only look at what's new in the last day or two, regardless of how far back they've actually read.
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Pillar of the Community
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You mean 100 degrees rotated . In numismatics, we measure the smallest degree of rotation from the 12 o'clock position because the die could have rotated either direction. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Good to know Type, thanks for the correction.
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Pillar of the Community
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Per Mike Diamond on a different thread here..."The way I've always practiced it, and the way I've always seen it done begins with the reverse design pointing south, which is the position you find the reverse face when you flip a coin from left to right. Any die rotation error is then assessed from 1 - 180 degrees, clockwise or counterclockwise. Any rotation toward a clock position greater than 6:00 is considered a clockwise rotation. Any rotation toward a clock position less than 6:00 is considered a counterclockwise rotation. Naturally, identifying a die rotation error as a rotation of the reverse face relative to the obverse face is simply a convention adopted for the sake of convenience. In any simple die rotation error, there is no way to determine which die rotated. However, die rotation errors combined with other errors almost always implicate the hammer die."
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Exactly, except I orient the reverse the other way myself.
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Posted 12/27/2014 4:37 pm
