Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 651645 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)	37801	13.26%
Silver Clad	27040	9.49%
Coin Silver	19190	6.73%
BN	17037	5.98%
Encapsulated Coin	16454	5.77%
Slabbed Coins	16092	5.65%
RB	15612	5.48%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	12770	4.48%
PF (PF60, PF70)	12402	4.35%
Reeded Edge	12179	4.27%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	11901	4.18%
PQ	10655	3.74%
MS (MS60-MS70)	10596	3.72%
PR (PR60, PR70)	10459	3.67%
High Relief	9833	3.45%
Incuse	9770	3.43%
Coin drop	9096	3.19%
Obverse or Face side	9069	3.18%
Rarity	8869	3.11%
Reverse Cameo	8143	2.86%