Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1061834 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)	55507	13.52%
Silver Clad	32408	7.90%
Coin Silver	24524	5.98%
Slabbed Coins	23404	5.70%
BN	22995	5.60%
Encapsulated Coin	21988	5.36%
RB	21447	5.23%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	18463	4.50%
PF (PF60, PF70)	18182	4.43%
Reeded Edge	17266	4.21%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	17091	4.16%
Rarity	16210	3.95%
PR (PR60, PR70)	16191	3.94%
PQ	15997	3.90%
MS (MS60-MS70)	15738	3.83%
Incuse	15037	3.66%
Coin drop	14829	3.61%
High Relief	14676	3.58%
Reverse Cameo	14356	3.50%
Obverse or Face side	14106	3.44%