Circulated Cameo Poll

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Zoins
Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited April 3, 2023 6:25PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Which abbreviation do you prefer and use?

More info on these coins here:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/969845/the-circcam-circulated-cameo-thread :)

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Circulated Cameo Poll

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  • Aspie_Rocco
    Aspie_Rocco Posts: 3,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CircCam

    :D

    @CircCam said:
    Poll over, nothing to see here folks…. ;)

    This poll was Made for You!

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  • braddick
    braddick Posts: 25,183 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CircCam

    Sometimes the act of being clever distracts from the message.

  • VanHalen
    VanHalen Posts: 4,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CircCam

    The term has gotten popular and often applied incorrectly as a marketing or ownership gimmick. True circulated cameo pieces are uncommon.

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 1, 2023 11:15AM
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    @VanHalen said:
    The term has gotten popular and often applied incorrectly as a marketing or ownership gimmick. True circulated cameo pieces are uncommon.

    IIRC, I have seen some people use a TradeMark symbol with one of the abbreviations.

    Should TPGs have a CCAM designation? It could go well with CAM and DCAM.

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  • CircCam
    CircCam Posts: 338 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CircCam

    @Zoins said:

    @VanHalen said:
    The term has gotten popular and often applied incorrectly as a marketing or ownership gimmick. True circulated cameo pieces are uncommon.

    IIRC, I have seen some people use a TradeMark symbol with one of the abbreviations.

    Should TPGs have a CCAM designation? It could go well with CAM and DCAM.

    I would vote no for sure, because it is a look that can be created artificially. Truly original examples of this effect exist but I think drawing the line in any technical way would be challenging to say the least.

    An example would be… take a uniformly dark toned bust half and use it as a pocket piece/handle it for little awhile. The devices would lighten and create the effect, but it isn’t original.

  • jacrispies
    jacrispies Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CirCam

    I may have used this once over an informal text conversation.

    Why use three C's when you can use two? Looks better in all lowercase as well.
    circam vs. circcam

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  • Steven59
    Steven59 Posts: 11,227 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "Circulation Cameo" - just another made up term to make a worn/average grade coin bring more money at auction.

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CirCam

    I prefer the CirCam... Keep it simple... Cheers, RickO

  • CoinHoarder
    CoinHoarder Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CircCam

    Never even heard the term CirCam until now.

  • seanq
    seanq Posts: 8,834 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CircCam

    @Zoins said:

    @VanHalen said:
    The term has gotten popular and often applied incorrectly as a marketing or ownership gimmick. True circulated cameo pieces are uncommon.

    IIRC, I have seen some people use a TradeMark symbol with one of the abbreviations.

    Should TPGs have a CCAM designation? It could go well with CAM and DCAM.

    I have posted it here as Circ Cam™ as a goof, it's kind of an inside joke going back decades on the forum to when @lordmarcovan popularized the term here.

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 3, 2023 8:13AM
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    CircCam

    As the originator of the term- or perhaps the co-creator, since someone else might have come up with it independently around the same time (circa 2006 or a bit earlier), I prefer CircCam. Big C, small c, Big C.

    So with three C's.

    Not that it matters, 'cause everyone is gonna spell it the way they want to, if they adopt the term at all. ;)

    But if you want the "official" canon spelling, there 'tis. :)

    Looks like the majority in the poll bears that out as well.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • MS66
    MS66 Posts: 235 ✭✭✭
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    Fake :p

  • CoinHoarder
    CoinHoarder Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CircCam

    @lordmarcovan said:
    And since this discussion is useless without a picture of a CircCam coin, here's my new baby. :)

    Note the contrast between light and dark, with the higher parts of the coin being lighter, from a toned coin receiving light rub on those points. I have heard this called "antique patina" in other circles. Whatever you call it, it is my preferred look on circulated coins.

    The CircCam term is, of course, a mashup of the words "circulated" or "circulation" and "cameo".

    To me, as far as my collecting taste goes, this is the perfect coin! :)

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @lordmarcovan said:
    And since this discussion is useless without a picture of a CircCam coin, here's my new baby. :)

    Beautiful coin! Thanks for posting it!

    I grabbed one from CoinFacts to add to the OP. I have a nice 1876-CC around here somewhere I need to take a good photo of.

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