It was great. I was like a kid in a candy store. Got to hold 8oz of gold, 7 rolls of morgans and a ton of bullion (not literally a ton) . A few nicer thean average coins were mixed in as well. Barber dimes, 1828 lg cent with 270deg. rotated rev., 1926 s merc, 1878 double eagle and an 1892-s morgan. Was just doing it to get the chance to look at some coin. Was given a 1997 ASE and the 1st 2 Rosie dimes I picked up in the pile. a '46 and a '64. I was like 'wow, here is the 1st and here is the last'. He said, you can have them.
Cool Nick. What sources did you base your appraisal on? I ask because I did one a few months ago for a friend who's mother passed away. He may be selling so I based it on Greysheet and what a dealer (namely my boss) would actually pay. In other words what he could realistically expect if he decides to dump the lot at a dealer.
Doing an appraisal can be fun. So how does that 270 degree rotation differ from a 90 degree rotation?
Sorted out the common stuff (read bullion), then 80% of redbook prices, grading conservatively. Nothing serious, mostly just to look at them and give him some idea. In the end, he just put them back in tubes, keeping the non bullion in a different area.
Noost, I'm not an error expert and I'm trying to understand the logic of rotated dies. Is there a directional component to the rotation? Suppose a normal reverse is \/. If a coin's reverse is > (270 degrees) does that mean the reverse die roated over time through < (90 degrees) and /\ (180 degrees) to get to > (270 degrees)? Or did it simply rotate negative 90 degrees to get to > (270 degrees)?
What if it rotated counterclockwise 90 degrees. Would it still be a 270 degree rotation even though it only rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise?
would still be in the same position, but I think rotation is figured clockwise. Plus, it just sounds more extreme. LOL
The engineer in me wants to call a rotation from \/ counterclockwise to > a rotation of 90 degrees counterclockwise. Afterall, that is how far it rotated. But I understand what you are saying. I guess if a reverse die rotated one degree counterclockwise it would be called a 359 degree rotation.
Noost Nice job there, but I hope that they don't expect to get those prices. Grey sheet would have been more accurate. That said, any better Barber dimes?
Maybe 10 or so Barber dimes. A couple I coulnd't tell the date, but one looked like 1913-s. The rest are common g to vg condition. He's not selling, just wanted to know which ones were worth more than melt. All were bought as bullion (except for the lg cents) over the last 30 years.
I think you can think of die rotation like a nut and bolt. When properly tightened, it can then only rotate one way, not the other. The same can be said for a die. They rotate one direction, unless they strip out their components. Guy~
Sounds like a blast, I love looking at stuff like that. Unfortunately I don't get much of a chance here.
