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Can someone explain "cameo" to me?

McDonisMcDonis Posts: 279
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Ok I have been reading a lot about Cameo coins but I really havent heard it explained real well. Can someone show me a side by side picture difference so I have a better idea what frosted devices mean? (what ever that means....)
Bottom Feeder collector, Happy collector of Moderns

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Cameo is the contrast between the devices, (raised portions), and the fields, (flat portions), of a coin. Think of a woman's cameo brooch with an ivory bust inlaid in an ebony circle.

    Extreme contrast - very white devices, and very black fields - is Deep Cameo.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    image

    image

    The first coin is a Cameo, the second a Deep Cameo.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    Here's an example of a coin without enough contrast to be called CAM or DCAM:

    imageimage
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • McDonisMcDonis Posts: 279
    Thanks that helps me....


    Basicly the darker the color contrast between the image and the smooth portion of the coin is what makes it a cameo.
    Bottom Feeder collector, Happy collector of Moderns
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    This is a relayer Deep Cameo!!!

    image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Basicly the darker the color contrast between the image and the smooth portion of the coin is what makes it a cameo. >>



    Bingo! The real challenge is telling the difference between the PF and CAM, and CAM and DCAM. The differences vary by coin type and by TPG...Mike
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • FullStepJeffsFullStepJeffs Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    So, here's a test... what designation would you give this one...



    1965



    Steve
    U.S. Air Force Security Forces Retired

    In memory of the USAF Security Forces lost: A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson, 9/28/05; SSgt Brian McElroy, 1/22/06; TSgt Jason Norton, 1/22/06; A1C Lee Chavis, 10/14/06; SSgt John Self, 5/14/07; A1C Jason Nathan, 6/23/07; SSgt Travis Griffin, 4/3/08; 1Lt Joseph Helton, 9/8/09; SrA Nicholas J. Alden, 3/3/2011. God Bless them and all those who have lost loved ones in this war. I will never forget their loss.
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>So, here's a test... what designation would you give this one...



    1965



    Steve >>



    Depending on the reverse, a CAM
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    steve,

    the test is flawed !

    its an SMS and you only pixed one side !
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  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭
    Go with Russ's coins..........................image
    ......Larry........image
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is Cameo, Daddy-O

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  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    Haul,

    Thats a Cameron dammit !
    image
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
  • coynclectercoynclecter Posts: 2,111


    << <i>So, here's a test... what designation would you give this one... >>



    LOL, it's a Jefferson Nickel, what more needs to be said.
  • segojasegoja Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭✭
    Think of your Grandmother's cameo broche...
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    Ike Specialist

    Finest Toned Ike I've Ever Seen, been looking since 1986

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  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    look @ my icon coin !

    Thats a moose CAM,yet not a DCAM because the reverse was not quite all there.
    image
  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    new york word...


    cameo...i wanna tawk tooz ya!
  • FullStepJeffsFullStepJeffs Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    I probably should have left a caveat that the "test" was for McDonnis... not for the resident experts in the bunch...image

    Steve
    U.S. Air Force Security Forces Retired

    In memory of the USAF Security Forces lost: A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson, 9/28/05; SSgt Brian McElroy, 1/22/06; TSgt Jason Norton, 1/22/06; A1C Lee Chavis, 10/14/06; SSgt John Self, 5/14/07; A1C Jason Nathan, 6/23/07; SSgt Travis Griffin, 4/3/08; 1Lt Joseph Helton, 9/8/09; SrA Nicholas J. Alden, 3/3/2011. God Bless them and all those who have lost loved ones in this war. I will never forget their loss.
  • 13PacesEast13PacesEast Posts: 712 ✭
    Lee Trevino in Happy Gilmore.
    know what you don't know.

    hi, i'm tom.

    i do not doctor coins like some who post in here.

  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,065 ✭✭✭
    Russ -

    EXCELLENT examples of CAM and DCAM coins. Well then again your are some kinda expert in that field, eh? image

    TorinoCobra71

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  • JSssonJSsson Posts: 891 ✭
    A Cameo coin has contrast between the field and the device. They look like they are two different colors or tones when looked at from a straight angle.

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