Please Post Your Cameo Coins

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Some folks started using the term "circulation cameo" because of a thread on the PCGS forum quite some time back. A really great member there named lordmarcovan started it. It is an easy way to describe the look of some early silver coins. For most the use of the term cameo is with proofs.

 

mrbrklyn


How come when you post a coin the pictire takes awhile to clear up ? I do have a high speed internet hookup .
rzage:headbang::thumb:

 

nice one jazzcoins joe

 

Cameo and DML

OH - I set the photo to be interlaced so it first comes down and then focuses and becomes clearer. Most graphics are not interlaced so they come down like a sheet unrolling down the screen


Ruben

 

Bruce , now tat's a cameo proof , looks like the cameo effect is even nicer than the ones the mint makes today .
rzage:hatch::hammer:

 

Ok, some of the 2005.,2006. 2007, 2007 pennies are very shiny, is that a cameo coin or what?

 

Shiny does not necessarily equate to cameo. Again, cameo means the devices are frosted and contrast with the fields.

 

I understand, Thank you all for your help. Nice coins here. Cheryl

 

This is a very interesting post I am new to this form but I enjoy collecting coins here are a few examples I wanted to add to this post

 

Here is a CAM and a DCAM little difference but it's how they grade them

 

I have the 2007 Silver proof and the 2008 Silver Nice. Cheryl

 

Now here is a 1959 CAM but it didn't get the grade it was only graded PR67

 

Did you get them graded I know PR70 is tuff to get all most rare I have all the PR70 silver 1999-2008 I was just putting up pictures to give an example of CAMEO grades

 

Five grades from MS to Ultra Cameo

 

No, I don't grade my coins. Cheryl

 

BAM the cameo appeared

Every coin has a story. This coin began as a sad little coin in a PR63 holder. Under florescent lighting, the coin looked like a 60-62 but I had faith in this coin. It had a really milky haze on all the surfaces & the haze was more blotchy & opaque on the devices. After much discussion with NCS they agreed to conserve it and BAM the cameo came out and the pristine surfaces could at long last be seen. We owe NCS many thanks.

Very best regards,
collect89

 

Cleaning the coin got two grades? Amazing.

Ruben

 

Hindsight is always 20-20

Hello Ruben,
Hindsight is always 20-20. In retrospect, I should have taken a similar photo of the 1909 prior to having it conserved. It was slabbed by a major TPG & the ugly-factor was very high before conservation was done. I think it is a good example of proper coin conservation.
Very best regards,
collect89