Coin Terminology and Glossary

The Coin Collecting Dictionary includes 546 titles used widely in the coin collectors community, and has received over 1106497 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)	55917	13.29%
Silver Clad	32826	7.80%
Coin Silver	24889	5.91%
Slabbed Coins	23813	5.66%
BN	23388	5.56%
Encapsulated Coin	22327	5.30%
RB	21838	5.19%
PF (PF60, PF70)	18816	4.47%
Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)	18791	4.46%
Reeded Edge	17642	4.19%
Ultra Cameo (UCAM)	17446	4.14%
Obverse or Face side	16903	4.02%
PR (PR60, PR70)	16768	3.98%
Rarity	16663	3.96%
PQ	16376	3.89%
MS (MS60-MS70)	16074	3.82%
Incuse	15401	3.66%
Coin drop	15222	3.62%
High Relief	15025	3.57%
Reverse Cameo	14767	3.51%