Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1094599 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)	55824	13.32%
Silver Clad	32736	7.81%
Coin Silver	24796	5.92%
Slabbed Coins	23720	5.66%
BN	23306	5.56%
Encapsulated Coin	22236	5.31%
RB	21735	5.19%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	18714	4.47%
PF (PF60, PF70)	18713	4.47%
Reeded Edge	17546	4.19%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	17357	4.14%
Obverse or Face side	16820	4.01%
PR (PR60, PR70)	16628	3.97%
Rarity	16567	3.95%
PQ	16289	3.89%
MS (MS60-MS70)	15999	3.82%
Incuse	15308	3.65%
Coin drop	15131	3.61%
High Relief	14949	3.57%
Reverse Cameo	14672	3.50%