Comments:  Reverse B is rotated left by approximately 45 degrees on the above specimen. Dick Osburn was the first to discover and report a rotated reverse for 1850 New Orleans coinage. The discovery piece graded VG-8. Afterwards, several other higher grade examples appeared including the above plate coin.

We should not be surprised to find an 1850 New Orleans dime with a rotated reverse considering that three of the four 1849-O die pairings were struck with misaligned dies. Based on this 1850-O finding, we know that the systematic die alignment problem that plagued the New Orleans mint in 1849 extended into 1850.

1850-O Varieties 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 105a, 106, 107

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