Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1108610 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)	55943	13.28%
Silver Clad	32847	7.80%
Coin Silver	24903	5.91%
Slabbed Coins	23837	5.66%
BN	23408	5.56%
Encapsulated Coin	22345	5.30%
RB	21849	5.19%
PF (PF60, PF70)	18825	4.47%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	18804	4.46%
Reeded Edge	17657	4.19%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	17464	4.15%
Obverse or Face side	16917	4.02%
PR (PR60, PR70)	16785	3.98%
Rarity	16685	3.96%
PQ	16392	3.89%
MS (MS60-MS70)	16086	3.82%
Incuse	15414	3.66%
Coin drop	15244	3.62%
High Relief	15044	3.57%
Reverse Cameo	14785	3.51%