Wording, coin talk

Very new to coins let alone the abbreviations you guys use on a regular basis.

Could you guys and gals maybe start a list of abbreviations and their meaning to help me get caught up?

Thanks

 

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also the coin grading letters, so far the only thing i picked up on was vf = Very fine

 

Welcome to Coin Talk! That's not a bad idea, though I don't know how to go about it. This list will not include all the abbreviations you see here, but it's a good start:

http://www.pcgs.com/lingo.chtml

 

Hi newcoinguy,

Welcome to the forums. There are a lot of abbreviations used on this site. I think there is a post somewhere that describes a lot of the abbreviations. I know the one that most people get confused about is PMD which means Post Mint Damage

As far as the coin grading letters, here is the list as follows;
PR=Poor
AG=About Good
G=Good
VG=Very Good
F=Fine
VF=Very Fine
XF (or EF)=Extremely Fine
AU=About Uncirculated
MS (or UNC)=Uncirculated
PF=Proof

Hope this helps.

 

every little bit helps, thank you. So pretty much the only abbreviations used are for greding a coin?

 

Well, when you see those that I listed, those are all the abbreviations for the grades of coins.

Other abbreviations are used just to keep typing in the forum shorter.
Like
TPG=Third Party Grading (Slab companies who grade coins like PCGS, NGC, ANACS)
AT=Artificial Toning
NT=Natural Toning

 

what does slab mean?

 

Also a found a quarter with a very small hole through the center of it why was the hole there? Have you ever seen a quarter with a hole through it?

 

A slab is a plastic sealed container containing a coin that they then authenticate and grade. Most US coinage in nicer condition is found in slabs. Check out the website for PCGS, a top slabbing company in the coin world. PCGS Website

 

The quarter with a hole in it is probably damage done to the coin after it was struck by the mint. No US coinage was made with a hole at the mint.

 

Welcome newcoinguy. Instead of us trying to compile a complete list of coin acronyms and terminology and post it in this thread, it would probably make more sense to ask what something means when it appears in a thread.

But the lingo list jallengomez provided is a great source.

-LTB