Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1092324 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) 55798  13.33%
Silver Clad 32716  7.81%
Coin Silver 24779  5.92%
Slabbed Coins 23692  5.66%
BN 23286  5.56%
Encapsulated Coin 22223  5.31%
RB 21713  5.19%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM) 18701  4.47%
PF (PF60, PF70) 18691  4.46%
Reeded Edge 17520  4.18%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM) 17338  4.14%
Obverse or Face side 16800  4.01%
PR (PR60, PR70) 16606  3.97%
Rarity 16540  3.95%
PQ 16262  3.88%
MS (MS60-MS70) 15980  3.82%
Incuse 15290  3.65%
Coin drop 15111  3.61%
High Relief 14935  3.57%
Reverse Cameo 14651  3.50%