Numismatic definitions
Like most fields of expertise, numismatics has its own lingo. Find the numismatic definition of a term by entering it in the field below.
Definitions - Alphabetical
A
Abbey Coins | About Good | About Uncirculated | Abschlag | Accolated | Accumulation | Acmonital | Adjustment | Adjustment marks | Ae | Aes Grave | Aes Rude | Aes Signatum | Agonistic | Alliance | Alloy | Altered | Aluminium | Aluminium-bronze | Amulet | Androcephalous | Anepigraphic | Annealing | Annulet | Antimony | Antoniniani | Anvil die | Ar | Assay | Assay Mark | Assignat | Attribution | Au | Authentication | Autodollar | Auxiliary Payment Certificate | Babel Note |
B
Back | Baf | Bag mark | Banknote | Barbarous | Base metal | Bath Metal | Beading | Behalfszahlungsmittel | Bell Metal | Billion | Billon | Bimetallic | Bimetallism | Bingle | Birthday Coins | Bit | Black Money | Blank | Blundered lnscription | Bon Pour | Bonnet Piece | Bouquet Sou | Box Coin | Bracteate | Brass | Breeches Money | Brilliant | Broadstrike | Brockage | Broken Bank-note | Bronze | Brown | Bull Neck | Bullet Money | Bullion | Bun Coinage | Bungtown Coppers | Burnishing | Bust |
C
Cameo | Carat | Cartwheel | Cased Set | Cash | Cast Coins | Census | Check | Chop | Christmas | Cistophori | Clad Coins | Cleaned | Clipped planchet | Cob | Coin | Coin collector | Coinage | Collar | Commemorative | Communion Token | Condition | Conjoined | Contorniate | Contribution Coins | Convention Money | Copper | Copperhead | Coppernose | Corrosion | Counter | Counterfeit | Countermark | Cowrie | Crockard | Crown Gold | Cuds | Cumberland Jack | Cupellation | Cupro-nickel | Currency | Current | Cut Money |
D
Darlehnskassen | Debasement | Decimalisation | Demidiated | Demonetisation | Denomination | Denticles | Design | Deteriorated die | Device | Die | Die alignment | Die break | Die cap | Die chip | Die clash | Die crack | Die damage | Die Proof | Die wear | Dodecagonal | Dots | Double struck | Doubled die | Dump | Duodecimal |
E
Ecclesiastical Coins | Edge | Edge Inscription | Edge Ornament | Effigy | Electrotype | Electrum | Elongated Coin | Emergency Money | Enamelled Coins | Engrailing | Engraving | Epigraphy | Erasion | Error | Essay | Evasion | Exergue | Exonumia | Extra metal | Extremely Fine | Eye appeal |
F
Face value | Facing | Facsimile | Fantasy | Fiat Money | Field | Filled die | Fillet | Filling | Fine | Finest known | Flan | Flaw planchet | Forgery | Fractional Currency | Franklinium | Freak | Front | Frosting | Full brockage | Funeral Money |
G
Galvano | Geat (Git) | Gem | Ghosting | Globular | Godless (or Graceless) | Gold | Good | Good for | Gothic Crown | Grade | Grader | Grading | Grain | Graining | Gripped Edge | Groove (Reeded) | Guerrilla Money | Guilloche | Gun Money | Gutschein |
H
Hairlines | Hammer die | Hammered | Hard Times Token | Hat Piece | Hell Notes | Hoard | Hog Money | Holed | Holey | Hub | Hybrid |
I
Imitation Money | Impaired | Imprint | Incomplete clip | Incuse | Inflation Money | Ingot | Intaglio | Intrinsic value | Iron | Issue year | Ithyphallic |
J
K
Key coin | Kipperzeit | Klippe | Knife Money | Kreditivsedlar |
L
Lamination | Laureate | Leather Money | Legal Tender | Legend | Liberation Money | Ligature | Long Cross Coinage | Love Token | Lushbourne | Luster |
M
Magnimat | Manilla | Master die | Matrix | Matte | Maundy Money | Medal | Medalet | Medallion | Milling | Mint | Mint Set | Mint state | Mintage | Mintmark | Mionnet Scale | Mirror Finish | Misaligned die | Misprint | Model Coin | Modified Effigy | Money Order | Mortat set | Mule | Mute |
N
Nail Mark | NCLT Coins | Nicked Coin | Nickel | Notaphily | Notgeld | Numismatics | Numismatist |
O
Obsidional Currency | Obverse | Off Metal | Overdate | Overstrike |
P
Paduan | Partial brockage | Partial collar | Patina | Pattern | Pearl | Pellet | Piece de Plaisir | Piedfort (Piefort) | Pile | Planchet | Plaque (Plaquette) | Plaster | Plated Coins | Platinum | Platmynt | Plugged Coins | Pollard | Poor | Porcelain Money | Postage Currency | Postal Notes or Orders | Potin | Privy Mark | Prize Coins | Profile | Proof | Propaganda notes | Provenance Mark | Pseudo Coins | Punch (Puncheon) | PVC | Pyx |
Q
Quench |
R
Re-issue | Red | Red-Brown | Reducing Machinery | Reeding | Relief | Remainder | Replica | Restrike | Retained broken die | Retarded coin | Retrograde | Reverse | Rim | Roll | Rotated die |
S
Saltire | Sandwich | Sceat | Scissel | Scrip | Scyphate | Sede Vacante | Seignorage (Seigneurage) | Series | Serrated | Sexagesimal System | Shin Plasters | Short Cross Coinage | Shroff Mark | Silver | Skit Note | Slug | Spade Guinea | Spade Money | Specie | Specimen | Spintriae | Spit |
C
S
Stamp Money | Steel | Sterling | Stone Money | Striation | Struck through | Styca | Sutlers' Tokens |
T
Tael | Thrymsa | Tical | Tin | Token | Tombac | Toning | Touchpiece | Trade Coins | Transport Tokens | Treasure Trove | Treasury Note | Troy ounce | Truncation | Trussel | Type | Type Set |
U
Uncirculated | Uniface | Unique | Unpublished |
V
Variety | Vecture | Veld Pond | Vellon | Very Fine | Very Good | Vignette | Vis-à-Vis |
W
Wampum | Watermark | Weak strike | White Gold | Wire Money | Wooden Coins | Working die | Working hub | Wrong planchet |
Y
Year Set | Young Head |
Z
Zinc |
