Hello,
I think Numista is missing page that could be easily found with same basic concepts/FAQ/glossary/beginners guide information about coins/banknotes/exonumia. For example what information I would like to see on that page related to coins/exonumia :
- what is pattern/essai/piedfort/trial strike coins?
- what is token and why some tokens appears among coins and some among exonumia ?
- explanation about different KM types :
- KM#N like this N#10469
- KM P#N like this N#185433
- KM PE#N like this N#142254
- KM Pr#N like this N#299919
- KMA#N like this N#4213
- KM Pn#N like this N#79018
- KM E#N like this N#344599
- KM Tn#N like this N#24413
- KM TnE#N like this N#2919
- KM TnC#N like this N#120896
- KM TnA#N like this N#7548
- KM TnB#N like this N#8892
- KM Ts#N like this N#113902
- KM M#N like this N#102701
- X #N like this N#17673
- X MB#N like this N#115125
- X M#N like this N#38567
- X Pn#N like this N#166770
- X Tn#N like this N#107274
- MS/PS/XMS/XPS/SS for sets
- explanation about different grade types:
- PR#N Ultra Cameo
- PR#N Ultra Deep Cameo
- PR#N Cameo
- MS#N
- PR#N
- AU#N
- SP#N
- PR#N BN
- PF#N
- PF#N RB
- UNC/XF/VF Details
I'm not mentioning some basic stuff like grades UNC/AU/XF; qualities like Proof/prooflike/BU etc… or what is coin and medal alignments etc.
This information is not directly related to Numista and maybe is described somewhere on web sites of Krause/NGS/PCGS/wiki but would be nice have it also here because every user will face with these abbreviations browsing pages.
What do you think?