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ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
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What numismatic terms do you not like?

I've never liked the word "GEMMY" as in close-to-being-gem or gem-like.

I also hate the term "UNC" (rhymes with DUNK). Although I've not heard this word in a while, it was very vogue back in the 80's.

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  • numismanumisma Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭✭

    "Pop-Top" bothers me.
  • SilverEagles92SilverEagles92 Posts: 6,787 ✭
    Cleaned.
    image
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  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    body-bag
    ~HABE FIDUCIAM IN DOMINO III V VI / III XVI~
    POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
    Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Home Shopping Network......
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    "lightly cleaned, generations ago" in an auction description.
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Grandfather's Estate"
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Already sold.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,518 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Already sold. >>



    speaking of...that coin is STILL on his website "for sale"
    JR Newsletter Online Edition
  • mrpotatoheaddmrpotatoheadd Posts: 7,576 ✭✭✭
    I don't know if they're really numismatic, but I dislike the cutesy names used for coin designs- "Washies", "Frankies", "Jeffies", etc.

    I keep expecting to see posts about "Merkies" and "Barbies" and "Kennies".
  • TreborTrebor Posts: 108
    "dropped" as in "OOOOPS, I just dropped that coin you asked to see." Usually followed by "Oh, it doesn't look too bad."
  • coinandcurrency242coinandcurrency242 Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Home Shopping Network...... >>



    Amen!!!!!

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  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,355 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A couple that really annoy me are "yummy" and "eye appealing".
    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

    image
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Rare" for coins that were minted by the millions and still have rolls available.

    Ken
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,062 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Cabinet friction" to justify asking MS money for an AU coin.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • 50cents50cents Posts: 1,320
    Market Acceptable
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    Cion
  • thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Undergraded" or "Should have been graded at least 1-2 points higher" (in an attempt to justify their overpriced asking price for what that slabbed coin normally lists for - JJTeaparty does this a lot, as well as many others.) image
    I never thought that growing old would happen so fast.
    - Jim
  • tresgatostresgatos Posts: 531 ✭
    Altered surface....I really hate that one.
    molon labe
  • thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't know if they're really numismatic, but I dislike the cutesy names used for coin designs- "Washies", "Frankies", "Jeffies", etc.

    I keep expecting to see posts about "Merkies" and "Barbies" and "Kennies". >>



    I interrupted sorting through my Roosie collection just long enough to say image
    I never thought that growing old would happen so fast.
    - Jim
  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    "Slider" is a term that bothers me. Part of it reminds me of dirt (sliding into ie baseball), the other part is suggestive of overgrading.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Questionable Authenticity"

    You're the experts. Figure it out! Do your job, and learn something in the process.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,062 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Questionable Authenticity"

    You're the experts. Figure it out! Do your job, and learn something in the process. >>



    I guess you don't like "questionable toning" either.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • NHSBaseballNHSBaseball Posts: 2,470 ✭
    "soap and watered long ago..."
    "College men from LSU- went in dumb, come out dumb too..."
    -Randy Newmanimage
  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    I agree wholeheartedly about the abbreviations of the President's names. As proper names they should not be abbreviated.

    I rarely use abbreviations, except run of the mill stuff like LOL-because who has the time to type out "Laughing out loud"?

    My term I hate hearing, mainly, is "investment" or "investing". However, even that does not annoy me as much as the simple four letter word-"melt". To me, in relation to coins, I consider that a swear akin to the F word.
    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
  • SLQSLQ Posts: 311 ✭✭

    "getting harder to find"
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just hearing "2001" and "Kennedy Half" in the same sentence makes me cringe.

    ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I hardly know where to begin. But, the term NEWP absolutely drives me nuts. I won't even LOOK at an offering under the heading of NEWP.
  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't really hate the descriptions I am writing, I really just get a chuckle when I read these, because most times they are just not true!!!

    Wholly original, fresh, HAND PICKED, we don't know why this didn't grade higher (on most of their listings. Lightly cleaned long ago, Hurry on this beauty
    (as it sits for months), a steal at this price. image
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I won't even LOOK at an offering under the heading of NEWP. >>



    You won't even L@@K? Pl3as3?


    The original question. I am torn between two numismatic terms...

    One person may grade a coin as an MS60 while another one grade it as an MS63 so I will leave that up to you

    or

    Titanium Powerseller


    Oh, sorry, those were eBay terms.
  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>But, the term NEWP absolutely drives me nuts. I won't even LOOK at an offering under the heading of NEWP. >>



    Yeah, that so-called word is like fingernails on a chalk board for me.
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    too many to listimage

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about simply "RARE"...yeah, just like the other 1,500 for sale on eBay.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Cabinet Friction
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Cabinet Friction >>



    Yeah, like what do you use for drawer liner, sandpaper?
  • FullHornFullHorn Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Fresh"
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    well toned-in
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • PrivateCoinCollectorPrivateCoinCollector Posts: 2,415 ✭
    When the dealer posts the price of the coin in a higher grade as a way to say this one is a deal.
    Morgan HerdTO Gold Mine
  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of the nicest "we have" seen. Even when it's a one person operation.
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Saw a listing from one of those ebay stores listing a CBH with a HUGE staple scratch right
    across the field and face and in the listing the seller says " Small obverse scratch that
    doesn't bother us one bit"
    image
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • jfoot13jfoot13 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭
    "Unsearched by me" I can just hear him saying.. Honey hurry up and cherry that roll I got another live one on the line
    If you can't swim you better stay in the boat.......
  • BXBOY143BXBOY143 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭
    GRADE-DETAILS!!
    https://m.ebay.com.my/myebay?mfs=tabs&actionName=SELL_OVERVIEW
  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,675 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Undergraded" or "Should have been graded at least 1-2 points higher" (in an attempt to justify their overpriced asking price for what that slabbed coin normally lists for -

    Hey!!

    I was going to say the same EXACT thing! image

    image
  • Type2FiftyType2Fifty Posts: 14
    Possibly cleaned ........... but a long time ago !image
  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Unsearched by me" I can just hear him saying.. Honey hurry up and cherry that roll I got another live one on the line >>



    Related: "Unopened" proof sets from the late 50s / early 60s that have pristine envelopes
    that look about a week old. One of the biggest scams on eBay.

    My Roosevelt Dime Registry Set
  • TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I hate it when sellers list coins like this.

    This coin has been lightly cleaned,has a small scratch,a few barely noticeable rim dings and is slightly bent,but "DOES NOT DETRACT"from the beauty of this coin.
    Trade $'s
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Original skin"
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    dentils and flan.
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>dentils and flan. >>



    Care to expound, Mr. Keets. image
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Looks all good to me."
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    Although it's probably not the most despised term I can think of, I tend to get this creepy feeling when a dealer describes a coin as "virgin", as in "virgin BU" or "virgin fresh". It's especially creepy when it's mentioned by an older, overweight type of dealer.

    There is also one coin company that has been known to use the description "creamy" as in "creamy luster". Though not as disturbing as the aforementioned, it still gives me a gross thought once in a while.
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    Authorized dealer for PCGS, PCGS Currency, NGC, NCS, PMG, CAC. Member of the PNG, ANA. Member dealer of CoinPlex and CCE/FACTS as "CH5"

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