Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1070406 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)	55582	13.48%
Silver Clad	32487	7.88%
Coin Silver	24598	5.97%
Slabbed Coins	23488	5.70%
BN	23066	5.60%
Encapsulated Coin	22060	5.35%
RB	21526	5.22%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	18526	4.49%
PF (PF60, PF70)	18433	4.47%
Reeded Edge	17343	4.21%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	17168	4.16%
PR (PR60, PR70)	16369	3.97%
Rarity	16289	3.95%
PQ	16082	3.90%
MS (MS60-MS70)	15808	3.83%
Incuse	15107	3.66%
Coin drop	14904	3.62%
High Relief	14757	3.58%
Reverse Cameo	14433	3.50%
Obverse or Face side	14172	3.44%