Strange words associated with coins…….🤔😉
safari_dude
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While reading about coins this morning at my favorite breakfast joint, I came across a word I’d never heard before: scissel. So what is scissel? It’s the scrap metal remaining after planchets are punched out. What other words have you seen that relate to coins that you had to look up? Denticles possibly? 😉
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I heard the word "shake" one time it came from the bottom of a change purse ( shavings, pieces etc, etc ). The rif raf kept it and sold it later. A real shady way of doing things
“Toning” is interesting.
The only prior usage (possibly obsolete) I can think of for the word is when someone is ‘toning up’ their muscles at a gym.
In today’s numismatic lingo, it’s the common euphemism for ‘tarnish.’
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Akin to "shaking" mentioned above ..... I believe I once read of a practice called "sweating": the shaking of bags of gold coins, creating gold dust which was then collected as the coins themselves were then sent on their way into the commerce stream. "Shaving" also comes to mind: the removal of thin slices of metal from the edge of a gold or silver coin. Correct me if I'm wrong; shaving is commonly seen within colonial silver coinage.
Whit
Lagniappe
"Seigniorage" is a good money-related term.
"Exergue" is another one someone here used. It still sounds nasty to me. 😬😀
Shaving is another term heard of
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Pied-fort
CAC
You’re right. Just ask a new collector if they have any “CAC’d” coins and they’ll give you the ‘huh?’ look.
Exergue
Yup, I'm an exergue and pareidolia guy cause I play Scrabble. Peace Roy
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Booby head.
my favorite:
Specie (money in the form of metal).
Exomunia -When I used in a sentence for the first time here, they jailed me for two weeks.
They jailed you because you spelled it wrong.
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Lysdexia, have nuf at my expense.
Commonly called webbing in this country, though both are correct.
Chop them up and you have “schruff” or “shruff.” I’ve seen it spelled both ways.
Seigniorage
Basal State: a coin that is so badly worn that only a portion of the legend or inscription is readable. This term was used by Sheldon who stated that enough of the coin had to remain for variety attribution. The term is a substitute for the grade “poor” ….
Every single time I see it written, i get a mental picture of Titus Pullo from HBOs Rome
Cud.
And ... "Retained CUD" I know, that's two words
Makes me think of something the cow just cant quite get rid of
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A "Guido" ... sounds like an Italian pizza, but it's not
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Brockage.....
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Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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Strange people 🤔
Piedfort
I once saw a 1799 dollar with raised points in the centers of all of the obverse stars. I believe the coin to have been struck as a Proof, or at least a Presentation Piece.
Dreck I find most amusing, though least appealing and strange , in terms of numismatics. It’s like junk and schlock
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Yeah this is an AI definition of centril. We all know AI is not always correct.
I've always thought it refers to the full star points originating at the center, denoting sharpness of strike, not a raised dot.
Loupe eye
This once took me three weeks to recover from...
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Laminations. Or is it De-laminations.
When I was younger we always called paper bills "Scoots". Turns out it actually is a slang word for money.
"scoots" can mean money in certain contexts, though it is not a widely used or common slang term.
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Gynandroid head? Supposedly used in the early days of the mint i heard
Whizzed.
Conder
Deuteronomy
Opened up a Bible and found a coin [in a flip] in the book of Deuteronomy.
The first time I saw the word "sintered", I thought somebody was misspelling the word "centered".
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
"Obverse". Non-coin-people probably assume you've mis-spelled "observe".
"Reverse". A perfectly normal word given a new but related meaning by coin-people. It probably helps to define "obverse" first, then "reverse" becomes obvious.
The words and phrases used in adjectival grading, which thanks to gradeflation are no longer literal. A coin in "Fair" condition is quite awful, a coin in "Good" condition is really rather bad, a coin in "Very Fine" condition is really rather average or mediocre, and so forth.
"Doctored". A non-coin-person might assume that a "doctored" coin is better than one that is "still sick". But fun fact: no.
"Pan-Pac slug" sounds like an exotic pest eating your lettuce.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
Somewhat like the word "quality," which most don't understand means essentially nothing when describing a noun.
Devices.
I just always thought it was odd terminology to reference design elements.
Seems like it's the opposite of devices...devices being the things that created the design elements.
Right?!?
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
newp, refers to new purchases
Whizzed……luster……..red-brown…..split bands…..full head…….🤔😉
Burnished...have a large cent that is noted as burnished....had to look it up.
Casual collector slowly building a collection....
Reverse proof….
Here's one from the currency arena: macerated.
Dreck