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PNC

PNC is the initialism of plate number coil.

PNC is the initialism of philatelic numismatic cover.

Meaning of plate number coil

Noun

plate number coil (plural plate number coils)

  1. A United States postage stamp with the number of the printing plate or plates printed on it.
    • We have developed other philatelic interests over the years so that it isn't important to us to have every new issue. Or, as Dave Lee suggested in another post, we work a specialty within modern issues such as plate number coils, or transportation issues, etc.1997 June 18, WJFIELDS [username], “Re: Why collect new U.S.?”, in rec.collecting.stamps (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    PNC

Forms of PNC

pluralPNCs

Questions about PNC

What is PNC the initialism of?
PNC is the initialism of plate number coil.

Words near PNC in the dictionary

  1. PMVs
  2. PN
  3. PNA
  4. Pnar
  5. PNAS
  6. PNC
  7. PNCs
  8. PND
  9. PNDs
  10. PNE
  11. pneometer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PNC (page history and authors); plate number coil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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