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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excellent idea.

    You know, I actually learned a few new ones that I had either not known or not noticed in my 7+ years here.

    "Green bean" = CAC sticker. That was a new one on me. LOL.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey, don't forget my meager "CircCam" contribution.

    Let me see if I can come up with a SHORT definition... how's this?

    A circulated coin with dark fields and lighter highlights (sort of like the cameo effect on proofs).

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,564 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Excellent idea.

    You know, I actually learned a few new ones that I had either not known or not noticed in my 7+ years here.

    "Green bean" = CAC sticker. That was a new one on me. LOL. >>



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  • SandhawkSandhawk Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭


    Don't forget the "CAM-SLAM"

    AND

    "SMOE" as in "Smoething" or "smoeone"


    YT,

    ODB - Ole Dirty Ba$$-turd





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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Weenie coin (MadMarty provenance): any Cook Islands coin featuring Tangaroa, the anatomically-correct god of fertility

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Smoe" and "Cam-Slam" bring back fond memories of the old Open Forum, may it rest in peace. image

    Dawg144 is probably too new to remember those.

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  • Now I know what VAM means. I knew it had to do with Morgans, but I always thought the M stood for Morgan. Thanks for the update!!!

    PCGS should lock this at the top for all newbs like meimage
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Farside. You have the others like Darkside, Liteside, Greyside... but there is also ... the Far Side. It's not as commonly used, but it's not quite as commonly collected, either.

    Farside = exonumia: tokens, medals, etc.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A numerical entry, to bring up the end of your list.

    7070 = The popular Dansco #7070 "US Type" album for 19th & 20th century coins.

    BTW, in the interest of brevity, you can probably remove the portion of my "CircCam" definition that is in parentheses, since it is a wee bit too long for one line. Thanks for the credit on it.

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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,299 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can't believe that no one has of yet mentioned "OBW", which means an Original Bank Wrapped roll of MS coins.

    For example: a roll of 1957D Silver Roosevelt dimes that were wrapped by Colorado National Bank in downtown Denver, Colorado in 1957 in a paper coin roll with the ends of the roll tightly wound/crimped by the bank; with the roll being purchased at the bank in 1957 by a collector who then puts it away, only to have the roll surface in 2008 when the collector's kids who inherited the collection find the OBW roll of dimes and sell it on ebay to a Silver Roosevelt forumite collector who drools over the prospect of opening the OBW to search for the ever so elusive pristine 1957D MS Full Band Roosevelt that is submitted to a TPG for grading and which comes back graded MS69 Full Bands, which is then sold by the collector to a forumite registry fanatic who uses the newly slabbed Top Pop dime to upgrade his/her silver Roosie collection from #2 on the registry to #1; with the forumite collector and the forumite registry fanatic both posting about their good fortune on the US Coin Forums, garnering for them the coveted "You Suck" accolades from their peers on the forums, who are green with envy, wishing that they were the ones who bought the OBW on ebay, realizing that they were outbid by a sniper who used a just new to the market hyper-sniping program to place the high/winning bid for the OBW a mere 0.1 second before the closing of the auction, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 seconds after slightly older sniping program bids were placed by the three underbidders, who are also silver Roosie forumites fanatics.

    That, my friends is an OBW.
  • SanctionII, that was fun to read image
  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,299 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ProofRainbowRoosie:

    Once my fingers started typing they just kept going as the example just kept getting longer and longer. It was fun to write, one of the more enjoyable replies I have posted to the forumsimage
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OBW is a good addition to the dictionary. I found myself scratching my head cluelessly the first few times I read it.

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  • psychedelic!! Do it again!!

    (like a little kid on a swing)
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Speaking of POTD, I think this thread in itself deserves a nomination, even though it's been many days since it was posted.

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  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WLH = Walking Liberty Half.

    Thanks for the lingo list,

    Scott
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MIA

    Minted In Asia


  • << <i>Speaking of POTD, I think this thread in itself deserves a nomination, even though it's been many days since it was posted. >>



    Lordmarcovan I agree. I'm sure it would take some time, but it would be nice if PCGS could use it as a useful dictionary for ppl like meimage This thread is like the golden ark for coin newbs!!
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    For one of our new arrivals.

    I'm gonna start pointing them towards this thread. Dunno why I didn't think of making one of these long ago.

    Good work, Dawg! image

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TTT

    I just found myself looking up "IIRC".

    See? This dictionary isn't just for the newbies.

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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Shoot, I missed this first time around.

    Just added it to my bookmarks, very useful. It took me almost 3 years on these boards to know what ATS meant. image
  • image Either means just kidding or is a get out of free pass for whatever you posted above.
    Want to buy an auction catalog for the William Hesslein Sale (December 2, 1926). Thanks to all those who have helped us obtain the others!!!

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SMS= Special Mint Set. That one just got used in a thread. I knew what he meant but a less numismatically seasoned person might not.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> Shoot, I missed this first time around.

    Just added it to my bookmarks, very useful. It took me almost 3 years on these boards to know what ATS meant. >>



    I still didn't know what it meant, until you just now mentioned it, and I looked it up at the top of the page!


    I hereby humbly propose that anytime somebody uses the dictionary, they should bump it TTT so that others will know it's here.





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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PMD = Post-Mint Damage (as opposed to an error).

    SDB = Safe Deposit Box (been hearing this one a lot and it made me scratch my head for a second).

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TTT, since a newbie on BST was asking what TTT meant. image

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  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,012 ✭✭✭
    Bluefish!
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, do please give us a definition on the blue fish thing. I have never fully understood it, in all these years.

    Edit: aha. I unnerstand, now. The definition should be amended to read, "the symbol of the now-defunct Open Forum, though, lest our newbies try to start looking for what no longer exists.

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  • coolestcoolest Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭
    Very informative. Thank you!
  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    J6P - Joe 6 pack

    JTP - Joe the plumber

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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    RCA = Rubber Chicken Approved
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • RyGuyRyGuy Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭


    << <i>J6P - Joe 6 pack

    JTP - Joe the plumber

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TTT for the new year, since "RPM" came up recently and a few folks didn't know the acronym.

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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Quick question: Can OGH (Old Green Holder) also mean "Older Generation Holder"? I think I've seen
    it used on eBay that way.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Moon shot - coin photograph taken at such high altitude that it can barely be recognizable as a coin.

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    I resurrected my sigline acronym dictionary…still need to update quite a few. Then I deleted it.
    Chat Board Lingo

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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977
    "F word" = Fraud

  • I just read all the post in the dictionary and it was recommended to ttt image for other people with questions but I still don't know what '..........' stands for. Anyone wanna help?

    Since I'm at it, what does it mean when someone follows your post with '+1'. I'm guessing it's a good thing.

    SO! Back to the top it goes.

    Lestrrr
  • fiveNdimefiveNdime Posts: 1,088 ✭✭


    << <i>Since I'm at it, what does it mean when someone follows your post with '+1'. I'm guessing it's a good thing.
    >>


    +1------------------------------------------------This thread is going to be deleted by a moderator, so I'll use it to raise my post count (see POOF)





    << <i>I hereby humbly propose that anytime somebody uses the dictionary, they should bump it TTT so that others will know it's here. >>


    IMHO = in my HONEST opinion (being not so humble)
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TTT, just because.

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  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BUT = Butt Ugly Toning
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Speaking of "bump", it should be added (as a synonym to "TTT", of course). I was just asked what "bump" meant.

    Dawg144, are you still with us to edit this? I see you last visited on St. Paddy's Day. I reckon you'll be back.

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  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ttt for Mr. Feld's benefit
    LCoopie = Les
  • gsaguygsaguy Posts: 2,425
    I think GSA stands for General Services Administration.image
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  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    UMS (Ugly Mood Swing)
    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
  • Dawg144Dawg144 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭
    Updates made. I'll try to make them less sporadic.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,398 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Updates made. I'll try to make them less sporadic. >>



    Would it be possible to flag the updates when they are made?
    One possibility would be to put an asterisk at the start of a new listing, which could easily be edited out when you make the next update.
    TD
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,398 ✭✭✭✭✭
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