Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1055576 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)	55446	13.55%
Silver Clad	32351	7.90%
Coin Silver	24456	5.97%
Slabbed Coins	23359	5.71%
BN	22946	5.61%
Encapsulated Coin	21945	5.36%
RB	21395	5.23%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	18413	4.50%
PF (PF60, PF70)	18127	4.43%
Reeded Edge	17206	4.20%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	17039	4.16%
Rarity	16155	3.95%
PR (PR60, PR70)	16136	3.94%
PQ	15948	3.90%
MS (MS60-MS70)	15693	3.83%
Incuse	14994	3.66%
Coin drop	14758	3.61%
High Relief	14620	3.57%
Reverse Cameo	14303	3.49%
Obverse or Face side	14046	3.43%