Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 833910 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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DefinitionSearchesPercentage
Specimen Proof (SP-70 or PF-70) 47312 13.48%
Silver Clad 29852 8.51%
Coin Silver 21864 6.23%
Slabbed Coins 20743 5.91%
BN 20117 5.73%
Encapsulated Coin 19586 5.58%
RB 18547 5.29%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM) 15815 4.51%
PF (PF60, PF70) 15397 4.39%
Reeded Edge 14674 4.18%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM) 14580 4.16%
PQ 13485 3.84%
MS (MS60-MS70) 13302 3.79%
PR (PR60, PR70) 13263 3.78%
Rarity 12817 3.65%
Incuse 12315 3.51%
High Relief 12237 3.49%
Coin drop 11905 3.39%
Reverse Cameo 11563 3.30%
Obverse or Face side 11483 3.27%