Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1040152 search inquires.

Selected title: 19XX-S
Explanation: X's are used where a portion of the date or the mintmark are not present. In this example, 19XX-S, the '19' and 'S' mintmark are present on the coin, but the last two digits of the date are not

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Specimen Proof (SP-70 or PF-70) 55295 13.59%
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Encapsulated Coin 21841 5.37%
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