Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1043188 search inquires.

Selected title: Reverse Cameo

Explanation: A coin where the background is frosted looking and the design has a polished mirror like look to it. Some Australia lunar 'Year of the Horse' and other lunar year animal gold /silver coins have this reverse cameo appearance

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Definition	Searches	Percentage
Specimen Proof (SP-70 or PF-70)	55340	13.58%
Silver Clad	32264	7.92%
Coin Silver	24353	5.97%
Slabbed Coins	23279	5.71%
BN	22853	5.61%
Encapsulated Coin	21865	5.36%
RB	21317	5.23%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	18334	4.50%
PF (PF60, PF70)	18043	4.43%
Reeded Edge	17107	4.20%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	16959	4.16%
Rarity	16042	3.94%
PR (PR60, PR70)	16036	3.93%
PQ	15863	3.89%
MS (MS60-MS70)	15610	3.83%
Incuse	14923	3.66%
Coin drop	14661	3.60%
High Relief	14538	3.57%
Reverse Cameo	14222	3.49%
Obverse or Face side	13959	3.42%