Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 874921 search inquires.

Selected title: NLG
Explanation: Numismatic Literary Guild: A prestigious organization of writers of numismatically related articles, books, etc

Most popular coin titles

DefinitionSearchesPercentage
Specimen Proof (SP-70 or PF-70) 53107  14.45%
Silver Clad 30430  8.28%
Coin Silver 22411  6.10%
Slabbed Coins 21280  5.79%
BN 20663  5.62%
Encapsulated Coin 20138  5.48%
RB 19082  5.19%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM) 16496  4.49%
PF (PF60, PF70) 15977  4.35%
Reeded Edge 15217  4.14%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM) 15160  4.13%
PQ 13968  3.80%
MS (MS60-MS70) 13853  3.77%
PR (PR60, PR70) 13810  3.76%
Rarity 13498  3.67%
Incuse 12843  3.50%
High Relief 12722  3.46%
Coin drop 12645  3.44%
Reverse Cameo 12106  3.30%
Obverse or Face side 11998  3.27%