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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 810433, member: 4552"]Obviously not many Mercury Dime collectors out there now. If you were the type of collector that puts coins in Albums, such a die rotation on Mercury Dimes is as common as the coin itself. I've always thought it was funny how I'd spend so much time attempting to align the obverse of a Mercury Dime in an Album, turn the page and about 25% or more were all tilted all over the place. I presently have over 3,000 Mercury Dimes. Some are in 12 completed Whitman Classic Albums and probably without counting, I'd say about 25% are all with rotated reverses. Many, many more are in 2x2's and again, many are all with rotated reverses. It is nothing to find one with 90 degrees rotated but usually much less and primarily to the left. By that I mean the top of the reverse is rotated to the left. I used to think it was rare to find so many so I started to isolate them as errors but eventually I just accepted a rotated reverse on a Mercury Dime as normal. Almost as if a not rotated reverse would be an error. There is some good points to those though. As Conder101 pointed out people think of those as a white elephant so it's an advantageous thing to point out to a dealer. Usually a person can get a really decent condition Mercury Dime for a cheap price that way.[/QUOTE]