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United States
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 verdigris = coin rust, just call it rust! pedigree = it's a coin, minted by the govt, to be distributed to the public. Who cares who touched it! Reeds = because if you have to count them for checking on a Morgan VAM, on 30 coins, you hate that term too. Troy weight = why does it only have 12 troy ounces in a troy pound? Why does it have to be different from the norm? Time now to go to my happy place! |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
937 Posts |
It's been mentioned by 2 other posters above but I gotta repeat/agree -- "RARE!"
Every time I see that word in a heading I get the sneaking feeling that the dealer is trying to convince me of something that he doesn't have a clue about himself. It's like a big neon sign saying "Beware!"-- I see that term in a description and I run.
I realize that there are some dealers out there who use the "r-word" appropriately and my heart goes out to them because unfortunately they seem to be in the minority.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
Canada
306 Posts |
Toonie being spelled as "Twoonie"
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
9437 Posts |
I hate "Large Cent" when referring to an Aussie or English Penny.
Steve :)
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Moderator
 Australia
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People that use "currency" as a synonym for "paper money" or "banknotes". "Currency" is a synonym for "money", and can include paper money, coins, cowrie shells, salt sticks, slabs of instant tea, or anything else that a particular society uses for money. People that refer to die chips as " Cuds". Feel free to call it a " Cud", if you like, but it's not a Cud. The letters in " Cud" are not an acronym or abbreviation for anything, so don't write it in all-caps. This is particularly aimed at the guy who writes most of the error coin articles in the Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine; he writes about Cuds. A lot.  Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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"Junk Silver"... I really hate that term.  I don't think any Silver is JUNK.  |
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Valued Member
Canada
449 Posts |
Unsearched is the one that gets me. Outright lie most of the time.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1472 Posts |
Rotated dies...I suspect 99% of the time one die is fixed properly and the other is rotated. Should be rotated die!
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Valued Member
United States
331 Posts |
"Broken Bank" for obsolete notes.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
5177 Posts |
Calling the grade at 8 points on the Sheldon scale "Very Good". I mean, seriously, you have to get some really cool design (or a collector that appreciates circulation) to make a VG-8 coin in any way "very good"!  (As for "fish-scales": Russian numismatics uses the term for our own silver wire copecks, which probably deserve it much more because they're at least elongated in shape, like the real fish scales are... and for that matter they're much smaller as well!) |
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Canada
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 Whenever the E-bay seller "asyn" uses the term MS-65 for coins that are NOT! Glenn  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
902 Posts |
"asyn" also uses the term MS-66 now.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36841 Posts |
"commercial uncirculated or premium quality brilliant uncirculated" = AU, over graded.
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United States
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