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"A Glossary of Coin Collecting Words and Definitions"
Locate the meaning of coin dealer and numismatic words.
COIN COLLECTOR WORDS
that start with the letter
" D "
- D mint mark
- - mintmark used to designate that the coin was struck
at the US mint in "Denver Colorado". Between 1838 and the civil war the "D" mint mark
was used by the US mint in Dahlonega Georgia.
- DCAM
- - see "Deep Cameo".
- damaged
- -A damaged coin would be one that has had something
happen to it to cause a defect. Examples would be: holes, bent, major nicks,
corrosion, scratches, mutilation. Usually makes the coin worth much les
than one without any defects.
- denomination
- - different values of coins or currency. For example US coins
currently have 6 different denominations: cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar
and dollar.
- deep cameo
- - describes the appearance of some proof coins. A coin with a cameo
design will have a somewhat frosted appearance to the raised features of the
design, with a polished or mirror like background (field). Deep cameo means
this frosted cameo effect is very obvious. Often, a proof with this
attribute will be of higher quality and may be rarer, particularly in older
proof coins.
- denticles
- - small tooth like raised areas around the edge of a coin. Particularly on
older coins. Often found all around the front (obverse) and back (reverse) of
the coin, right next to the edge.
- designer
- - artist who creates the design. Not the
engraver (who actually makes the
coin producing dies). Although, in years past some designers were also
engravers.
- die
- - an engraved metal stamp used for stamping out the
design of a coin. The die is often hardened so that when it strikes the
metal blank an impression will be left indicating the coins design, value,
and wording. See "anvil die" and "hammer die"
- die clash
- - damage to a coin die that occurs when the top
and bottom dies collide without a coin in the press. The dies will may hit each other
with such force that they damage each other leaving a trace of the impression on one
or both dies. Resulting coins produced may exhibit "clash marks". Clash marks will
show some of the reverse design on the obverse side of the coin, some of the obverse
design on the reverse, or both.
- die defect
- - damage or defect of a coin die. The coins
produced by that die will exhibit the same defects.
- die variety
- an alteration in the basic design of a coin. Comes from slight differences in
the designs on the dies used to stamp coins.
disme
- a French term meaning one tenth. The US term for a tenth of a dollar, a
dime, traces its roots back to this term. The term was americanized and
the s was dropped.
doubloon
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- nick name given
to a popular Spanish gold coin.
doubloon
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- nick name given
to a popular Spanish gold coin. Often associated with pirates and buried
treasure.
- double die
-
- a coin that shows numbers or letters doubled. Caused
by the coin die having been made with a doubled design on parts of it. Example: 1955 double
die Lincoln cent.
- double dime
-
- nickname for the United States
20 cent piece coin
made during the mid-late 1800's. ruicenea coin that shows numbers or letters doubled.
- double eagle
- - used to describe a twenty dollar gold piece,
the likes of those made between 1850 and 1932. Called a double eagle because the
gold content was twice that of an "eagle" $10 gold piece. Double Eagle gold
pieces contain "almost" an ounce of gold
- double edge lettering
- -
describes and error found on some US Presidential dollar coins. The date,
motto, and mintmark are impressed into the coin edges of presidential dollar
after the coins are minted by running them through an edge lettering machine.
When run through the edge lettering machine twice some of the edge letters will
be doubled. Plain edge presidential $ coins errors can also occur if a
coin does not go through this last (edge-lettering) step during the production
process. Two types of Presidential double edge lettered errors exist,
overlapped errors and
inverted errors.
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