Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 941106 search inquires.

Selected title: Aurichalcum

Explanation: A brass alloy containing copper and zinc, used in ancient coins; also called aurichalcum, orichalcum. Its name literally means gold copper, because of its yellow colour resembling gold

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Definition	Searches	Percentage
Specimen Proof (SP-70 or PF-70)	54320	13.94%
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Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	16233	4.17%
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