Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 991938 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)	54885	13.73%
Silver Clad	31885	7.98%
Coin Silver	23960	5.99%
Slabbed Coins	22865	5.72%
BN	22425	5.61%
Encapsulated Coin	21528	5.39%
RB	20832	5.21%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	17968	4.50%
PF (PF60, PF70)	17654	4.42%
Reeded Edge	16722	4.18%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	16640	4.16%
PQ	15491	3.88%
Rarity	15485	3.87%
PR (PR60, PR70)	15375	3.85%
MS (MS60-MS70)	15267	3.82%
Incuse	14542	3.64%
Coin drop	14257	3.57%
High Relief	14185	3.55%
Reverse Cameo	13816	3.46%
Obverse or Face side	13495	3.38%