Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1035472 search inquires.

Selected title: Junk Silver

Explanation: Silver coins of circulated quality. Often used to describe bags or common US silver coins that were pulled out of circulation when silver was disappearing. Does not mean the coins are damaged. Junk silver rolls or bags usually will not contain scarce dates, low mintages, or high quality coins

Most popular coin titles

Definition	Searches	Percentage
Specimen Proof (SP-70 or PF-70)	55253	13.60%
Silver Clad	32200	7.93%
Coin Silver	24288	5.98%
Slabbed Coins	23206	5.71%
BN	22781	5.61%
Encapsulated Coin	21808	5.37%
RB	21245	5.23%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	18252	4.49%
PF (PF60, PF70)	17982	4.43%
Reeded Edge	17037	4.19%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	16905	4.16%
PR (PR60, PR70)	15971	3.93%
Rarity	15941	3.92%
PQ	15806	3.89%
MS (MS60-MS70)	15547	3.83%
Incuse	14858	3.66%
Coin drop	14582	3.59%
High Relief	14481	3.56%
Reverse Cameo	14159	3.49%
Obverse or Face side	13892	3.42%