Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1052963 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) 55427  13.55%
Silver Clad 32339  7.91%
Coin Silver 24437  5.98%
Slabbed Coins 23345  5.71%
BN 22922  5.60%
Encapsulated Coin 21928  5.36%
RB 21371  5.23%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM) 18399  4.50%
PF (PF60, PF70) 18111  4.43%
Reeded Edge 17186  4.20%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM) 17017  4.16%
Rarity 16138  3.95%
PR (PR60, PR70) 16111  3.94%
PQ 15933  3.90%
MS (MS60-MS70) 15676  3.83%
Incuse 14976  3.66%
Coin drop 14742  3.60%
High Relief 14603  3.57%
Reverse Cameo 14285  3.49%
Obverse or Face side 14027  3.43%