Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1009795 search inquires.

Selected title: FAO
Explanation: Food Agricultural Organization of United Nations: the most famous organization fighting for the production of more food for the poorest countries suffering still today a persevering undernutrition. The first coin has been issued by the Bolivian Government in 1968 and after that, many countries issued a lot of other coins. Actually there are over 1,600 coins which celebrate this very important World Association, struck by about 140 nations all around the World. All these coins included common divisional currency as well as silver and gold coins. There're also some rarity as pattern and piefort pieces which are more rare and surely not cheap

Most popular coin titles

DefinitionSearchesPercentage
Specimen Proof (SP-70 or PF-70) 55025  13.68%
Silver Clad 32009  7.96%
Coin Silver 24099  5.99%
Slabbed Coins 23002  5.72%
BN 22587  5.61%
Encapsulated Coin 21639  5.38%
RB 21003  5.22%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM) 18098  4.50%
PF (PF60, PF70) 17805  4.43%
Reeded Edge 16850  4.19%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM) 16756  4.16%
PR (PR60, PR70) 15800  3.93%
Rarity 15653  3.89%
PQ 15621  3.88%
MS (MS60-MS70) 15382  3.82%
Incuse 14676  3.65%
Coin drop 14397  3.58%
High Relief 14314  3.56%
Reverse Cameo 13968  3.47%
Obverse or Face side 13648  3.39%