Just for fun, what are some of your favorite words or phrases used to describe coins?

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  • steveben
    steveben Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    cabinet friction

  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I "love" (note heavy sarcasm) when obvious environmental damage or porous surfaces are described as "patina"...

    My new fave:"us coins auction error coins"... ;-)

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • Walkerfan
    Walkerfan Posts: 10,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @lkenefic said:
    I "love" (note heavy sarcasm) when obvious environmental damage or porous surfaces are described as "patina"...

    My new fave:"us coins auction error coins"... ;-)

    Or when an over-dipped coin is described as having 'satiny' luster. :p

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • ctf_error_coins
    ctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Eye Appeal, Eye Appeal, Eye Appeal
    Unique
    Extremely Rare
    Wow

  • Goldbully
    Goldbully Posts: 18,557 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Stolen form Heritage.........love there descriptions

    PQ
    Mottled Toning
    CAC-endorsed
    Excellent for the grade
    Hint of luster remains
    Underlying mint luster
    perhaps 300 or 400 examples survive
    evidence of post-strike contact
    Luster glistens across truly untouched, spotless, and glittering surfaces.
    Superb Gem
    old roll toning
    minor strike softness

  • Moldnut
    Moldnut Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭
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    Hen's Tooth :D

    Derek

    EAC 6024
  • World67
    World67 Posts: 13,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A negative one that I use is Sewer Toning.

  • savoyspecial
    savoyspecial Posts: 7,373 ✭✭✭✭
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    "mellow"
    " mottled toning"
    "full mint bloom"
    "collector grade"

    www.brunkauctions.com

  • Walkerfan
    Walkerfan Posts: 10,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 29, 2023 10:16AM
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    @Moldnut said:
    Hen's Tooth :D

    Yes, I heard an old-timer use that, once, a long time ago. He lived in a rural area.

    It must've caught on, because now, I hear it a lot in the collecting community.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CAC

    o:):D

    My YouTube Channel

  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Frost
    Crusty
    Dirty
    Original
    Eye Appeal
    Early >:)

    My YouTube Channel

  • MFeld
    MFeld Posts: 17,132 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "Pulsating luster"
    "Oil slick iridescence"

    And for a bit of alliteration - "Silky smooth surfaces"

    Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.

  • jkrk
    jkrk Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Split grade

  • ModCrewman
    ModCrewman Posts: 4,054 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Condition Rarity

  • coinkat
    coinkat Posts: 24,542 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    intense used as a modifier in connection with other descriptive terms

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

  • SanctionII
    SanctionII Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Blizzard thick DCAM frost.

  • privatecoin
    privatecoin Posts: 3,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Real money. Material value.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

  • alefzero
    alefzero Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    prohibitively rare - for specific coins for which demand far exceeds the extant populations
    dreck - used it until I used the term on here years ago (my old account name) and was picked up by others
    handsome - usually for outstanding, warm, natural toning
    commodity coins - high population issues (like 1889 Morgans in MS63) that might as well trade as commodities, with the exception of rare die varieties.
    scuff magnet - referring to 1921 low relief Morgan dollars and ICG slabs

  • JWP
    JWP Posts: 37,344 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    WOW

    USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
    Successful Transactions with more than 100 Members

  • CommemDude
    CommemDude Posts: 2,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Credit goes mainly to Laura:

    Headlight luster
    Jaw-dropping ,,,, also, Pick your jaw off the floor color
    Godzilla monster color

    Dr Mikey
    Commems and Early Type
  • Joe_360
    Joe_360 Posts: 1,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 30, 2023 8:22AM
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    "The Holy Grail"
    "She's a Beauty"

  • percyb
    percyb Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭✭
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    “Used”. Cracks me up! Lol

    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
  • Nic
    Nic Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Moose
    Monster
    Superb

    My 1866 Philly Mint Set

  • MrScience
    MrScience Posts: 787 ✭✭✭
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    Fleur de coin

  • AUandAG
    AUandAG Posts: 25,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Pocket carried
    Commerce used.

    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • airplanenut
    airplanenut Posts: 22,763 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "Mark Feld approved"

    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • streeter
    streeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Opportunity knocks

    Have a nice day
  • RiveraFamilyCollect
    RiveraFamilyCollect Posts: 910 ✭✭✭✭
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    Single Finest Graded

    Llamas and alpacas are camels. They aren't like camels, or related. They are camels. When was anyone going to tell me this?! How long had Bill Nye been holding out on us?

  • Dave99B
    Dave99B Posts: 8,947 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Dripping luster...

    Dave

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • Pnies20
    Pnies20 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Original
    Crusty
    Iridescent
    One that Sheridan Downey uses to describe toning - raucous
    Undisturbed
    Caky

    BHNC #248 … 140 and counting.

  • burfle23
    burfle23 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    With @DeplorableDan on "scudzy"!

    Also love "from my Grand Pa's collection" B) ...

  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    For copper, I like "smooth surfaces" and and "medium to light brown color" for circulated pieces.

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • BigMoose
    BigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
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    Coruscating luster.
    “The eye appeal is fabulous”—auction description by Bob Grellman
    “This is a coin for the most fastidious perfectionist”—Lester Merkin auction lot description.

    TomT-1794

    Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
  • WAYNEAS
    WAYNEAS Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Rare, galactic toning.
    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • BigMoose
    BigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
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    A gem of the first water. Usually applied to diamonds but occasionally to coins as well.

    TomT-1794

    Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
  • BigMoose
    BigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
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    Condition Census #1

    TomT-1794

    Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • MacCrimmon
    MacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
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    Prachtexemplars

    Erstabschlag

    And as the Swiss say, "Guten tag mein freund!"

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Pareidolia

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • LukeMarshall
    LukeMarshall Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "hints of lilac" gets me everytime

    It's all about what the people want...

  • TennesseeDave
    TennesseeDave Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 29, 2023 5:52PM
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    @Moldnut said:
    Hen's Tooth :D

    I used to hear some old timers say, "It's as rare as hens' teeth."..... Hens don't have teeth.

    Here are a couple of my favorite phrases used to describe coins:
    Grey dirt surfaces
    Original thick skin
    professionally conserved

    Trade $'s
  • MapsOnFire
    MapsOnFire Posts: 236 ✭✭✭
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    And then, of course, there's Dave Bowers' "uncirculated, light rubbing."

  • Walkerfan
    Walkerfan Posts: 10,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @LukeMarshall said:
    "hints of lilac" gets me everytime

    Yes and ‘seafoam green’… Why not just say possible PVC residue. lol

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • Catbert
    Catbert Posts: 8,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I really despise "easily passed CAC." How do they know? Just so glib.

    Seated Half Society member #38

    "She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
    running like a water color in the rain...."
  • braddick
    braddick Posts: 25,183 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @airplanenut said:
    "Mark Feld approved"

    Or, equally so:
    "TomB approved"

    That is a badge of honor.

  • MFeld
    MFeld Posts: 17,132 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    “A virtual smorgasbord of colors add considerably to the eye-appeal of this mouth-watering example.”
    I don’t think I ever read anything like that, but I sort of like it.😉

    Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.

  • JRocco
    JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Extreme doubling seen....

    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"

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