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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 2740762, member: 84179&quot;]I think the following scenarios would best explain the rotation. After the clash occurred in the normal alignment; </p><p><br /></p><p>a) A mint worker removed the die for rework after the clash and installed it wrong</p><p><br /></p><p>b) the clash (or something else) my have loosened or broken something that allowed the dies to rotate.&nbsp; It may have taken numerous strikes for the full rotation to occur strikes. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m leaning towards a).&nbsp; If b) is true, there should be other rotated dies coins out there.&nbsp; The only reference I have that might address this is Breen&#039;s Encyclopedia and it doesn&#039;t say anything about rotated dies for the 1861.&nbsp; Not good proof, but something of a start.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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