Selected term: Deep Cameo (DC or DCAM)
Explanation: High grade proof
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Deep Cameo The term applied to coins, usually Proofs and prooflike coins, that have deeply frosted devices and lettering that contrast with the fields - often called Â"black and whiteÂ" cameos.
Deep Cameo: a coin that shows heavy contrast between the frosted devices and the mirrored fields.
Deep Cameo
Coins that have deeply frosted devices and lettering that contrast with the fields.
deep mirror prooflike ...
DCAM: "Deep Cameo" refers to a proof coin that has deeply frosted devices and lettering that contrast with the shiny fields
denomination: the monetary value assigned by the issuing government to a coin. Example: Dime, Quarter, Dollar.
Deep Cameo - high grade proof.
DD
Double Die - A coin that was struck twice with the same die, with one strike slightly off from the other.
Deep Cameo - A cameo coin with especially heavy contrast between the frosted and brilliant mirrorlike areas.
DCAM (deep cameo)
An expression to describe a proof coin having heavily frosted design elements and lettering that contrast with the fields. See also Cameo (CAM).
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- cameo - see deep cameo CDN
- chop marks - marks or characters stamped into previously made coins. Often found on silver trade dollars and other precious metal coins.
Shorthand for deep cameo
DDO or D.D.O.
Doubled Die Obverse, an obverse die which exhibits doubled images in one or more places.
DCAM Short for Deep Cameo. dealer Someone whose occupation is buying, selling, and trading numismatic material.
DC (DCAM) Deep Cameo. High grade proof. DDO Doubled Die Obverse. Type of die variety. DDR Doubled Die Reverse. Type of die variety. DMPL Deep Mirror Proof Like. Business strike, with deep mirrored planchet.
Several thousand proof Barber half dollars have been certified, including Cameo and Deep Cameo pieces. Prices are moderate to Select Proof, expensive from PR64 through PR66, and very expensive finer than that.
Highly lustrous with deep cameo contrast between the frosty orange-gold motifs and deep mirror fields. A classic rarity, a variety that is missing from virtually every major collection of California small denomination gold.
It is always nice to have a PR69 or a PR70 DCAM (Deep Cameo) coin in your collection, but at what cost? Are modern proof coins in these grades a good buy?
Silver Eagle Proof Coins are considered the coin collector editions as they also have decreased mintages and attractive deep cameo mirrored fields. Complete sets of MS69 and PR69 Silver Eagles are becoming very difficult to put together.
* 1996 Prestige Proof Set, $535.00
* 1997 Prestige Proof Set 6 Deep Cameo Proofs, $173.38
* 1990 Eisenhower Prestige Proof Set, $22.96
* 1996 US Mint Olympic Prestige Proof Set (one of only 55,000), $480.00 ...
The depth of mirrors on proof coinage has led to terms of distinction such as Cameo, Deep Cameo, Ultra Cameo and so forth.
Those with deeper pockets who love a challenge seek to assemble date-and-mint sets in MS-65 and above or collections of high-grade proof Franklins with deep cameo contrast.
For example, with the state quarters, do I buy the rolls from the Mint, or bank or really spend a lot of money and buy the certified coins from dealers? And then there are the deep cameo, which are even more expensive.
The all-time auction record for this issue was set in January 2007 when Heritage sold an NGC PR66 Deep Cameo for $149,500. I have handled three examples of this date in the last four years.
 See also: Coin, Cameo, Proof, Dollar, Eagle
  
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