Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1137881 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) 56189  13.19%
Silver Clad 33069  7.76%
Coin Silver 25159  5.91%
Slabbed Coins 24083  5.65%
BN 23616  5.54%
Encapsulated Coin 22564  5.30%
RB 22075  5.18%
PF (PF60, PF70) 19064  4.48%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM) 18987  4.46%
Reeded Edge 17886  4.20%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM) 17681  4.15%
Obverse or Face side 17099  4.01%
PR (PR60, PR70) 17091  4.01%
Rarity 16975  3.99%
PQ 16613  3.90%
MS (MS60-MS70) 16293  3.83%
Incuse 15642  3.67%
Coin drop 15511  3.64%
High Relief 15260  3.58%
Reverse Cameo 15015  3.53%