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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2595290, member: 10461"]I'm a more than a little OCD myself, but this issue doesn't bother me much if at all. Collecting as many ancient and medieval coins as I do, one comes to accept any kind of die rotation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Though the coin did not have rotated dies, I must have seemed really OCD to NGC Ancients when I returned a <a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/842190/roman-empire-vespasian-69-79-ad-silver-denarius-judaea-capta-type-struck-ca-69-70-a/p1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/842190/roman-empire-vespasian-69-79-ad-silver-denarius-judaea-capta-type-struck-ca-69-70-a/p1" rel="nofollow">Vespasian denarius</a> to them for reholdering, after they holdered it with the reverse facing forward. David Vagi sent me a letter explaining that they did that to showcase the popular "Judaea Capta" reverse type, which I can understand, but as my <a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/842182/lord-marcovans-twelve-caesars-roman-imperial-collection" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/842182/lord-marcovans-twelve-caesars-roman-imperial-collection" rel="nofollow">Twelve Caesars collection</a> were all in the box with the portraits of the emperors face up, that irked me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked through my slabbed pieces from the current Box of 20 and only saw a couple whose die rotation seemed <i>slightly</i> off-kilter. I've had others that were more extreme, though.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/England-AR-penny-AethelredII-074500-slab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/England-AR-penny-AethelredII-074500-coin-800x500.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FAustrianNeth-2L-1790-025000-slab.png&hash=4b467285c0ea8cb67a90829b1d6bcce5" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FAustrianNeth-2L-1790-025000-coin.png&hash=b8377964b0c01e3c369c2948654b52af" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2595290, member: 10461"]I'm a more than a little OCD myself, but this issue doesn't bother me much if at all. Collecting as many ancient and medieval coins as I do, one comes to accept any kind of die rotation. Though the coin did not have rotated dies, I must have seemed really OCD to NGC Ancients when I returned a [URL='https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/842190/roman-empire-vespasian-69-79-ad-silver-denarius-judaea-capta-type-struck-ca-69-70-a/p1']Vespasian denarius[/URL] to them for reholdering, after they holdered it with the reverse facing forward. David Vagi sent me a letter explaining that they did that to showcase the popular "Judaea Capta" reverse type, which I can understand, but as my [URL='https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/842182/lord-marcovans-twelve-caesars-roman-imperial-collection']Twelve Caesars collection[/URL] were all in the box with the portraits of the emperors face up, that irked me. I looked through my slabbed pieces from the current Box of 20 and only saw a couple whose die rotation seemed [I]slightly[/I] off-kilter. I've had others that were more extreme, though. [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/England-AR-penny-AethelredII-074500-slab.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/England-AR-penny-AethelredII-074500-coin-800x500.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FAustrianNeth-2L-1790-025000-slab.png&hash=4b467285c0ea8cb67a90829b1d6bcce5[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FAustrianNeth-2L-1790-025000-coin.png&hash=b8377964b0c01e3c369c2948654b52af[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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