COIN ABBREVIATIONS
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 Die 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
Merc = Mercury (Liberty) Dime
SLQ = Standing Liberty Quarter
WQ = Washington Quarters
ATB =America The Beautiful Quarters
WLH = Walking Liberty Half
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 = re-punched MM
OMM = over MM
SERP = Special enhanced reverse proof
PR and PF = proof
FB = Full bands
FSB = Fully Separated Bands
FS = Full steps
FH = Full head
FBL = Full bell lines
MPL = Matte Proof Lincoln
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
CAM = Cameo
DCAM = Deep cameo
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 or PR = Poor.
US Mint Marks:
Philadelphia = P or none
Denver = D
San Francisco = 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)
