Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1108872 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)	55951	13.28%
Silver Clad	32852	7.80%
Coin Silver	24906	5.91%
Slabbed Coins	23838	5.66%
BN	23408	5.56%
Encapsulated Coin	22348	5.30%
RB	21854	5.19%
PF (PF60, PF70)	18829	4.47%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	18804	4.46%
Reeded Edge	17658	4.19%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	17469	4.15%
Obverse or Face side	16923	4.02%
PR (PR60, PR70)	16791	3.99%
Rarity	16690	3.96%
PQ	16395	3.89%
MS (MS60-MS70)	16088	3.82%
Incuse	15422	3.66%
Coin drop	15250	3.62%
High Relief	15047	3.57%
Reverse Cameo	14787	3.51%