Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 716175 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)	40745	13.22%
Silver Clad	28078	9.11%
Coin Silver	20174	6.54%
Slabbed Coins	18195	5.90%
BN	18091	5.87%
Encapsulated Coin	17460	5.66%
RB	16755	5.43%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	13687	4.44%
PF (PF60, PF70)	13553	4.40%
Reeded Edge	13094	4.25%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	12797	4.15%
PQ	11690	3.79%
MS (MS60-MS70)	11565	3.75%
PR (PR60, PR70)	11432	3.71%
High Relief	10716	3.48%
Incuse	10699	3.47%
Rarity	10360	3.36%
Coin drop	10050	3.26%
Obverse or Face side	9959	3.23%
Reverse Cameo	9103	2.95%