Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 962531 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) 54617  13.85%
Silver Clad 31660  8.03%
Coin Silver 23735  6.02%
Slabbed Coins 22599  5.73%
BN 22136  5.61%
Encapsulated Coin 21324  5.41%
RB 20523  5.20%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM) 17758  4.50%
PF (PF60, PF70) 17386  4.41%
Reeded Edge 16485  4.18%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM) 16433  4.17%
PQ 15268  3.87%
Rarity 15175  3.85%
PR (PR60, PR70) 15110  3.83%
MS (MS60-MS70) 15055  3.82%
Incuse 14264  3.62%
Coin drop 14013  3.55%
High Relief 13950  3.54%
Reverse Cameo 13535  3.43%
Obverse or Face side 13256  3.36%