What adjectives and nouns are unique to numismatics??

Lakesammman

Was having a PM conversation with Oreville the other day and the "bean-a-bility" of a coin came up.

Here are a couple to get started.

CAC - pronounced "cack"
Beanability - will it earn a bean?
White rattler - 1st generation PCGS holder

What other terms are unique to us coin weenies??

The list of words that appear to be unique (and excluding phrases):
brockage
piedfort
mintmark
whizzed
shinplaster - I've always suspected it was to line boots but QDB says there's never been a "contemporary" reference - do you know of one??
overdate
exergue
Kraljeblog
tab-toning
POS
doubled-die
NEWP - could be used anywhere but I've never heard it other than referencing coins
proof-like
AT
Trime
half-dime
chatroom-weenie
disme
half-disme
cartwheel-luster
booming-luster
deep-cameo, DUC
crackout expert
you suck - unique as a award rather than a insult
castainging - can you explain what this means??
tombstone-label


Questionable:

exonumia - see Mr. half dimes post - beautifully said.
scudzy
Beanability
sixed
scrip - used outside numismatics
puttied - I've used it alot on wood projects
Pocket Piece - could be a watch or other objects
vest pocket dealer - more of a phrase than a word
slabbed - isn't that what happened to the boss of the Teamsters?
Shipwreck effect - happens to everything on the ship, not just coins
Dreck - duplicate entry, see POS above.

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WoodenJefferson

planchet...not sure if that is used else where.

Maybe 'flan' meaning the same thing.

roadrunner

According to google, none of these 3 terms is unique to us numismatists. And we rank well down the list on all of them.

California Arts Council
Mr. Bean's Ability
White Rattler (white rattlesnake)

We have to try harder.

I'm pretty sure "numismatist" is a safe one.
How about "Gobrecht?"

Lakesammman

California Arts Council
Mr. Bean's Ability
White Rattler (white rattlesnake)


Good point on white rattler - you're right.

I'll stick with CAC as used by us - ie "Will it Cack"

Beanability is still good - nothing to do with Mr. Bean's ability.

PerryHall

Business strike
mintmark
Mint State
die crack
die chip
die break
restrike
first strike
die polish
die sriations
roller marks
adjustment marks

pmac

<< <i>LOOK
means incrdible deal not to be missed


ah shucks that is an adverb I do believe. >>


Back to English lessons for you. verb.

Justacommeman

Lakesammman -(Lake - sam - man)------ (1) collector of the obscure and unloved. (2) expert on Vietnamese sub culture

MJ

MidLifeCrisis

<< <i>Lakesammman -(lakes-a-sam-mmmm- man)------ (1) collector of the obscure and unloved. >>


Wow.

If that's the definition, just call me Lakesammman II.

ColonelJessup

Not necessarily a word unique to our own nomenclatural niche, but there was, in the early TPG days, as well as possibly now, a noun which was employed as both a transitive and intransitive verb. Why not claim it as something that will make us feel very special. Secret language



When a coin came through the graders had sixed it (graded it 66) or it had sixed.

Someone from particle physics is going to come up with an incredible gerundive

Lakesammman

Lakesammman -(lakes-a-sam-mmmm- man)------ (1) collector of the obscure and unloved. (2) expert on Vietnamese sub culture

By the way, it's pronounced (Lake - sam - man). With regards to my suculture studies, see below.

How can you NOT get into a slab like this??

Lakesammman

Colonel - you're over my head.

Justacommeman

Just like at Wiki the pronouniation has been edited for accuracy. Thank you. MJ

goodmoney4badmoney

"brockage"

roadrunner

<< <i>"brockage" >>



That's a good one. And it looks like it's all ours too.

I googled "Erin Brockagevich" and still came up with the correct spelling of "Brockovich." Oh well.

Tiny

cartwheel luster

MarkInDavis

How about this term I really hate: cabinet friction.

savoyspecial

There are nouns like 'cull' and 'bourse' that are not unique, but are used more often in our field than others

Is 'piedfort' unique to our trade?

kranky

Scudzy.

stealer

People actually call it "cack"? I thought people just said "CAC", literally.

ColonelJessup

Brockage

Elcontador

"toilet bowl toning" - described many of the toned Unc. Barber Halves I've seen
"urine colored toning" - described many of the toned Unc. Liberty Nickels I've seen

Sonorandesertrat

Is there a distinction between broadstruck and broad-struck?

Lakesammman

I'll start a list in the OP - I like several and a quick review of websters seems to confirm.

cyclonus11

<< <i>LOOK
means incrdible deal not to be missed


ah shucks that is an adverb I do believe. >>



You also misspelled L@@K, which I pronounce 'LAAK'.

tradedollarnut

Newp

AT

filler?

pocket piece

trime

half dime

vest pocket dealer?

slabbed?

Broadstruck

<< <i>Is there a distinction between broadstruck and broad-struck? >>

lkeigwin

disme
Lance.

Nap

"Cartwheel luster"
"Shipwreck effect"
"Booming luster"
"Deep (ultra) cameo"
"Crackout expert"

segoja

The "you suck" Award

Buzzybest

I claim authorship of the "Tombstone Label" unless someone can show an earlier reference. My exact words were "My favorite label is the flag First Strike label.You can put the black one on my tombstone".

jughead1893

prooflike

melvin289

<< <i>LOOK
means incrdible deal not to be missed


ah shucks that is an adverb I do believe. >>



I always thought it was, "LQQK."

Ron

Sonorandesertrat

chatroom weenie (so sayeth Laura S.)

nickel

....uummmm , 'slider' , until restaurants put them on their menu ?"

bidask

"Sorry you missed this bargain"

Swampboy

Castainging.

A castaing'd coin.



BTW , my spell check didn't like that word.
It offered as alternatives carol singing, castigation, and non-staining.

BAJJERFAN

<< <i>planchet...not sure if that is used else where.

Maybe 'flan' meaning the same thing. >>




Planchet is used pretty commonly in radiochemistry.

Staircoins

Whizzed!

Shinplaster

Scrip (No, the word does not have a 't' on the end.)

Exonumia

Overdate

Exergue

Mercury

Shinplaster?

The only one so far that I have no idea what it means.

fivecents

Trime

savoyspecial

Kraljeblog

MacCrimmon

tab toning

puttied (?)

tradedollarnut

<< <i>Shinplaster?

The only one so far that I have no idea what it means. >>




That's a currency term

TwoSides2aCoin

There is an acronym : POS

I use it in the shop to avoid hurting people's feelings when they sell what many of you consider schlock, dreck, junk, etc. I don't want to tell them to take their stuff to CoinStar or the bank, or my competitor because they typically say "We don't want that _ _ _ _, take it down the street.

On a few occasions I've said, "Well it's POS'ly (prounounced POZZZ Lee) worth more than what you could get at the coinstar machine, but not much ".

They're not sure if I said "positively, or possibly". Thankfully , few ask which adjective I was using. They just assume it's good.

Staircoins

"Shinplaster" is a term that has been used at various times in the US and Canada to refer to small denomination notes, either of government or private issue.

The story goes that these small notes became worth so little, so soon after issue, that soldiers lined their boots with them to prevent chafing.

It has since come to refer to several issues of fractional or small denomination currency issues.

frnklnlvr

I can't believe no one's said doubled die yet.

Ed62

CACed

Swampboy

<< <i>castainging - can you explain what this means?? >>



Sure.

Jean Cataing was a Frenchman who invented the machine that allowed edge lettering before close collar dies were introduced.

The machine was referred to as a 'castainging machine.'

I can't cite any sources confirming the use of the adjective 'castainged.'
It's not likely I coined it.

MrHalfDime

In attempting to find adjectives or nouns which are truly unique to numismatics, I could come up with very few. Some of the suggestions already mentioned actually find use in other pursuits, such as ‘die crack’, ‘die break’, and ‘die polish’ used in the tool and die trade, and ‘newps’ which arguably could apply to any collectible. And over many years of pursuing my specialty, I have been amazed at the apparent widespread use of the term ‘half dime’ in relation to the relative size of a defect or stain, particularly in reference to clothing or items made of cloth.

Here are a few words or phrases that are almost unique to the field of numismatics:

'Cud' is a word that should have remained exclusively in the lexicon of cattle ranchers, as it is hardly descriptive of the mint error we have come to know it as.

'Slabbed' is a word used in numismatics, and perhaps in the mortuary field, although the subsequent ‘cracking out’ remains exclusively a numismatic term (one would hope).

Isn’t it an oxymoron to say that 'Exonumia', or things outside of numismatics, is unique to numismatics?

I think that proper nouns like people’s names (e.g., Gobrecht, Castaing) should not be included, as they had lives beyond the field of numismatics, and there are numerous other people who share their names with no connection to numismatics. Exceptions might be forum members ‘Longacre’ and ‘Pistareen‘, who are truly unique numismatic phenomena.