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Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
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In your opinion.

after some responses I,ll throw out a word that no one seems to use that
I believe sorta sums in up for me.

I,m contemplating my on personal designation system now, conceptualized
from seeing this `word` on `a coins condition`that I read......somewhere......

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    littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    "rare"

    I hate that word so much now after seeing so many ebay auctions with that in the title and description where a common coin is being described.image


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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whizzed
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    stujoestujoe Posts: 1,510
    Monster
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    mbbikermbbiker Posts: 2,873 ✭
    "1989" when talking about what the coins were worth back then, it has nothing to do with what it's worth today but lots of people still think they need to add that the coin for sale was worth $2,000 in 1989 and the'll let it go for the low price of $100
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    Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    just now realizing `numismatics` does encompass a wide variety of areas of importance
    so for that matter, I guess fraud would be the worst word ,obviously, I guess I,m meaning in the
    context of grade and condition. Just to clarify my intentioned topic a bit.
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    WhitewashqtrWhitewashqtr Posts: 737 ✭✭✭
    PQ++
    HAVE A GREAT DAY! THE CHOICE IS YOURS!!!!
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    geb209geb209 Posts: 375
    CLEANED
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    carterhainescarterhaines Posts: 155
    LQQK or double die.
    Retail coin dealers, the only people who can buy a $10 coin for $2, and sell it for $30.
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    TassaTassa Posts: 2,373 ✭✭
    PQ?
    Jade Rare Coin
    Jade Rare Coin eBay Listings
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    FullHornFullHorn Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Trends
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    Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    Ah ,its the board mentality....lol....not worst ebay-key word search words you dingleberries...
    LOL

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    DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    Accugradeimage
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
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    ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    I hate the word "Pop".
    Next would be "blast-white".
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    PBRatPBRat Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭
    Never liked the word "denticles".
    Paul

    My Type Set
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pop Top

    Net Grade

    (Sorry, two words but one concept)

    Accented Hair
    (just kidding, Russ)

    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    MONSTER

    I don't even use the word to describe a coin any more. A good image is worth a thousand words. Let the person lookin at the coin or the image determine if the coin sets itself apart or not.
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    numispronumispro Posts: 103
    Can't think of one, so my top four:

    1) Highest
    2) Graded
    3) None
    4) Higher

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    ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    This one really annoys me: Using the word "perfect" to describe any coin graded less than 70.
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    hughesm1hughesm1 Posts: 778 ✭✭
    Altered
    Mark
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    ARCOARCO Posts: 4,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why stop with one when there are many that truly annoy! image

    "Original" Guaranteed to be a scrubbed cleaned turd

    "problem Free" Guarenteed to be a scrubbed cleaned turd, and will be chock full o' problems.

    @Look@@ Guaranteed to be a ultra common coin grading G/AG with $6.00 shipping. (Ebay coins)

    "key date" When the coin can be bought by the bucketfull at most coin shops.

    "Rainbow" when not only is the coin not rainbow toned, but looks like a crappy dark slug.

    Sharp(place your grade here) and the coin is two grades lower and cleaned....Ebay's ERNIE...OH I am in trouble now! image

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    pierrepierre Posts: 53 ✭



    " AH " image
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    MercMerc Posts: 1,646 ✭✭
    Counterfeit. When a coin comes back in a bodybad with counterfeit there is nothing worse.
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    lavalava Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭
    ACG imageimage
    I brake for ear bars.
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    Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,364 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Cleaned long ago". Whoops, that's three.

    Dave
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    Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    lol

    you people are incorrigible.

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    wayneherndonwayneherndon Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭
    The words in numismatics are I, is, mat, a, at and tics.

    Tics is the worst of these.
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    oops, forgot "bull market"
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,692 ✭✭✭
    "problem" is the worst word, hands-down. ie. when someone tells you that a 1794 dollar that's been cleaned is a "problem" coin, that someone is a moron. the only "problem" is people who can't accept a coin for what it is, & want it to be "perfect" in some obscure, unapproachable way.

    K S
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    nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,387 ✭✭✭
    1. Counterfeit
    2. Altered Surfaces/Cleaned
    3. Tooled
    4. PQ
    5. Monster
    6. Blast White
    7. Rare
    8. Estate
    9. Hoard
    10. ACG, NTC, TruGrade
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,947 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Impounded.
    Andy Lustig

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    CoulportCoulport Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭
    Beeback

    Sure you will. And I'll set this aside for you.

    Anyone here a beeback?
    The most money I made are on coins I haven't sold.

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    CoinResourceCoinResource Posts: 1,113
    POP TOP

    It's something you cut your foot on at the beach! -cr
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    LegendLegend Posts: 336 ✭
    worst single word: jail! image

    my worst three words: DID NOT CROSS!!!!!!!!! image
    Laura Sperber


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    SmallTownCoinsSmallTownCoins Posts: 688 ✭✭
    "Highest price's paid"..... my azz.... It's being bought to sell it to someone else for more ... right ???
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    chuckfarthingchuckfarthing Posts: 158
    polyvinylchloride (sp?)
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    wallstreetmanwallstreetman Posts: 2,938 ✭
    Laura beat me to it!

    Also, get rid of the term Original unless your talking about an untoned (Factory Blast White Coin), or you add the word Toned to it!
    You can fool man but you can't fool God! He knows why you do what you do!
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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,760 ✭✭✭✭
    "Never liked the word "denticles". "

    Sounds pornographic!


    I never liked the word "unc" (rymes with "punk").
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    jonesyjonesy Posts: 5,031
    AU58, Bodybag!!image
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    JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    I'm with RYK, whizzed is definitely an undesirable description and probably would only be tolerated in a serious collection for a REAL rarity.
    PNG member, numismatic dealer since 1965. Operates a retail store, also has exhibited at over 1000 shows.
    I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.

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    coachleonardcoachleonard Posts: 995 ✭
    notworthanything

    As in when a dealer or another collector tells you that your coin, which has a retail value of say, $10, is
    "not worth anything."l
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    thaddthadd Posts: 138
    Dipped
    Thadd...
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    AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    "Estate sale" -- used to excuse a multitude of sins/lies.
    Askari



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    JOHNandBEAJOHNandBEA Posts: 171
    "unsearched"..............



    John


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    NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dipping - the next generation will view dipping the same way the current generation views baking soda cleaning that was accepted in the 60's and even explained in the "Guidebook". The cumulative effect of multiple "properly done dippings" will leave many coins ruined, for rare bust coins and other scarce coins this is a tragedy.
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    cameoproofcoinscameoproofcoins Posts: 128 ✭✭
    Unique. Very few things are unique. It may be the only one graded by that service, but if I buy it I guarantee there will be another.
    Bill
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    pullthischangepullthischange Posts: 19

    1) Acid
    2) BOLD
    3) Dateless
    4) Flawless
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    gsaguygsaguy Posts: 2,425 ✭
    Okay, this is a phrase:

    "from Grandpa's collection"

    Alarm bells should ring, lights should flash, and you should immediately leave the area.

    GSAGUY
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,486 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Body Bag image

    That's two words, but who's counting. image
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    jeffnpcbjeffnpcb Posts: 1,943 ✭
    Should be graded!! {reference to a slabbed coin}image
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    eagle7eagle7 Posts: 1,441
    MOOSE!
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