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Picked up a roll of mostly higher grade pre-1941 coins and just pulled this out of it. Also an uncirculated 1936-S/S RPM-001 in there so it was worth the $14 I paid for lot. 1940 S Lincoln Wheat cent mint error - 129 degrees rotated dies    |
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Nice find TB. I have yet to find one of these.
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Wow ! Nice Haul and nice Pics.
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Nice, but it looks more like 128 degrees to me.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Nice finds. Good...no Great photos also. John1  |
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Stellar find! I love rotated dies on modern coins.
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Sweet! I have yet to encounter a rotated die coin.
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Thanks! I've gone through gobzooks of 1940-S coins and even though this is a year I always check both sides this is only the second one of these I've found. Seem like a rotated die is one of the more rare things out there for whatever reason.
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Very nice! Rotated dies are more common on modern nickels, but wheat cents they are very rare.
-CH27
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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I was going to say the same thing CH. Those are rare. I just saw a slabbed one that was off 20% or so. Nice coin Batts.
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Nice wheat. Out of curiosity, how do you calculate the 129 degree rotation? That's very precise, did you break out a protractor?
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Nothing so complicated as a protractor. I knew I found one of these a few years ago and that this die marriage is listed on rotated dies.com http://rotateddies.com/I trust they measured it more accurately than I could quickly, so went with their number. |
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Nice find. Even the 30/40 degree rotations aren't exactly common. I've only found one of those in the wheats.
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Really nice find. Really great pictures. I just pulled a Memorial cent out of a role and it's rotated but not as much as your wheat. I like that mirror shot. I'm going to try that soon. Thanks for sharing  |
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One more thing. When a side is rotated. Which die is rotated? Obverse or Reverse?
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