What Makes a Coin Cameo or Deep Cameo?
Justin
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I know that they are very shiny with a mirror like effect but can any coin be designated Cameo or Deep Cameo if they are shiny enough or are they created by design to be that way?
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If you click on the PCGS link at the top of the page, you can go to their lingo section and learn more about these terms.
The first coin is not a CAM, the second coin is a CAM, and the third is a DCAM. The major difference between the second and the third is the depth or "blackness" of the mirrors. Also, the contrast must appear on both sides of the coin in order to receive the designation.
Russ, NCNE
This is caused by an etching of the dies in an acid bath, the fields of the dies were then polish with a diamond compound to nearly flawless mirror like perfection. Since the devices of the coin are in sharp recess they did not have their surfaces polished and left with an etching that created the white frost like appearance.
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Very nice examples and pictures! Well Done!
Dan
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Russ, NCNE
DCAM and Ultra Cameo coins are differentiated by two qualities --
the mirror-like qualities of the fields and
the degree of the frostiness of the devices.
A DCAM or Ultra Cam ideally has very frosty devices (with minimal areas that lack frost) and very mirror-like fields.
A Cameo coin lacks one or both of the qualities (relatively speaking) of the DCAM or Ultra Cam coins
and non-designated coins lack even more of the two qualities that Cameo coins have.
Kinda like....uh...uh.....uh.....I can't think of anything right now that it's like. Sorry.
(but hey, don't listen to me, I'm not a numismatist)
adrian
The modern MS gold bullion and silver commemeratives are also made for collectors as those never circulate. This is a little confusing to me. These super quality MS coins don't have the mirror like fields nor frosty devices of a proof. While they look very nice I prefer the look of deep cameo proof coins.