I'm new to Coin Community, and this is my first post.
I recently purchased a proof 1937 Mercury dime from an online dealer. Upon receipt, I noticed that the reverse image was offset by about twenty degrees from the obverse image.
In my experience, I have never seen a US coin of any type struck like this; thus, unsurprisingly, my initial reaction was, "Jackpot! Ka-ching!" But after doing some research, I found that this mismatch is normal for these coins, proof and otherwise, but varying by degrees.
This raised a few questions in my mind: [1] Why were these coins minted like this? [2] Do any other US coins display this "feature"?
This is so common with some coins it is completely ignored. Not even mentioned in the Red Book on the list of errors. Now if it was 180 degrees, might be worth mentioning.
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