04/07/2023
List of Numismatic Acronyms
BIN=Buy It now
DND=Deal Or No Deal, (basically make an offer and see if they accept)
PPFF= PayPal Friends and Family
PPG&S= PayPal Goods and Services.
LCS =Local Coin Shop
PMD= Post mint Damage.
MD= Machine Doubling (Worthless Doubling)
CRH= Coin Roll Hunting
CWR= Customer Wrapper Rolls
DD= Doubled Die
DDO= Doubled Die Obverse
DDR= Doubled Died Reverse
WAM= Wide AM
CAM= Close AM
Lam=Lamination error of some sort.
MAD= Misaligned Die Error
IDB= Interior Die Break
FEC= Flying Eagle Cent
IHC= Indian Head Cent
LWC= Lincoln Wheat Cent
LMC = Lincoln Memorial Cent
LSC= Lincoln Shield Cent
SLQ= Standing Liberty Quarter
WQ= Washington Quarters
ATB=America The Beautiful Quarters
SLD= Seated Liberty Dollar
ASE= American Silver Eagle
AGE= American Golden Eagle
AT= Artificial Toning
NT= Natural Toning.
ASW= Actual Silver Weight
AGW= Actual Gold Weight.
OGP=Original government packaging
OBW=original bank wrapped(rolls)
SMS=special mint set
MM=mintmark
RPM=repunched MM
OMM=over MM
SERP=Special enhanced reverse proof
PR and PF=proof
FB=full bands
FS=full steps
FH=full head
FBL=full bell lines
MPL=Matte Proof Lincoln (looking at the trueviews of these got me back into collecting coins that aren't silver)
Grading acronyms. On slabbed graded coins these acronyms will be followed by a number from 01-70. MS or PR 70 is the highest grade any coin get receive.
TPG= Third Party Graders. Aka PCGS, NGS, etc etc.
PR or PF=Proof
PL=Proof Like.
DMPL= Deep Mirror Proof Like.
MS= Mint Sate
UNC= Uncirculated (Same as MS but used when referring to raw ungraded coins.)
BU=Brilliant Uncirculated
AU= About Uncirculated or Almost Uncirculated.
EF or XF=Extremely fine.
VF=Very Fine
F=Fine.
G=Good.
AG=About Good.
PO= Poor.
US Mint Marks.
Philadelphia= P or no MM
Denver= D
San Fransisco= S
West Point= W or no MM like Philly coins.
Carson City Nevada= CC
New Orleans= O
Dahlonega Georgia= D (Gold coins only from 1838-1861)
Charlotte NC= C (Gold Coins only from 1838-1861)