I Found a Really Cool Error, Any Ideas on What it is Worth?

I was coin roll hunting some pennies and grab a 1994 penny, I think nothing of it but check the reverse to see if there is anything cool there. Anyways, I flip the coin over, and notice something different. The oriantation of the obverse and reverse is more like a that of a British coin than an American coin. I'm guessing that it is 170 degrees, because when I flip it, it is not perfectly straight. Any ideas on the value of this coin?

In the two photos here are two coins, the error and a normal coin. In the first photo I start the coins of normal on there obverse, on the second photo I flipped each coin upside down perfectly, notice the difference of each coin?

 

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Reverse die error <180 degree nice find

 

Ah, is the error that they are two different dates?

 

Wow. Never seen this before! I'll be interested to hear what the pros have to say. Neat find!

 

I measured it, around 170

 

There is a $1 gold coin on ebay right now like this... has been there for awhile. I would LOVE to buy it, but the price they are asking is out of this world!

 

Nice. Seems to be common enough to be known. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1994-LINCOL...34?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item19f940c3e2

This seems like a good buy at $19... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1994-ROTATE...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

Here is something on rotaded dies on lincolncentresource.com. I know that the 1994's are known to have pretty big rotations.
http://www.lincolncentresource.com/Errors/RotatedDies.html

 

Post a pic taken while holding it up to a mirror so we can see both sides in the same picture.

 

Any ideas on a grade?

 

Neither one of these is a very big rotation. Kinda like comparing a 2% Clip to a 30% clip. Usually, the bigger the error, the bigger the price.

 

I keep searching for this one. Must have looked at a couple thousand 94's!

Good eye!

 

Are you following this thread the same way I am? Is approx. 170° not big? I thought this would be as big, as having this cent minted in a foreign mint with medal orientation.

 

Why do your instructions to him seem tantamount to calling him a liar? Are you planning to analyze the photo to more finely discriminate the exact angle than he can with coin in hand?

 

I'm sorry. I forgot to say Pretty Please With Sugar On Top.

 

This is a well known rotated die coin. They say it's an R5 here but I'm not sure when or if this site has been updated. http://rotateddies.50webs.com/census.htm

 

No no! Those 360 degree rotations are the only ones I'd pay big bucks for! I have a few thousand if anyone is interested! $10 a piece! What a deal!

Really, is that not a big rotation? The biggest I've found is 19 degrees. If this is no big deal, I'm digging mine out & rolling them! Geez, what ya gotta find?!?

 

I just want to correct you on something, 180 degrees is the biggest a rotation can be, anything over 180 would be lower than 180, 190 would really be 170, and 360 would actually be no rotation at all, there would be no way to tell.

 

I have a feeling he's joking.