Pic Post: Post your absolutely, no doubt about it, completely virgin, most original coin...

coinlieutenant · July 12, 2004 12:50PM

We all know how hard virgins are to find...

Anyway, post your favorite that is a "no doubt about it" original coin!!

K6AZ · July 12, 2004 12:55PM

stman · July 12, 2004 12:58PM

How many "Virgins" you like?

FrattLaw · July 12, 2004 12:59PM

Zulan · July 12, 2004 1:49PM

The most original one I have found so far?

Its spanish!!! I warn you! Does that make me a dark sider? Or just lame?

Zulan

LincolnCentMan · July 12, 2004 1:51PM

David

K6AZ · July 12, 2004 1:54PM

That's a pretty good looking 09-S VDB for a brown.

LincolnCentMan · July 12, 2004 2:00PM

That's a pretty good looking 09-S VDB for a brown.

Thanks... you should see the rest of the set....... they're pretty good looking... for brown coins.

David

mgoodm3 · July 12, 2004 2:00PM

Not the highest grade or most expensive, but one of the prettiest coins I own.

puff · July 12, 2004 2:03PM

lordmarcovan · July 12, 2004 2:11PM

Virgins are not at all hard to find, if you are a metal detectorist. There are dozens of occasions where I know for a fact that I was the first and only person to see, let alone touch, a particular coin, in 50-100-200-300 years.

The trouble is, these virgins lose their virginity quickly when they come out of the ground, as it is usually necessary to clean them.

However, I can think of three or four examples where a coin came out of the ground so pristine that only a gentle soap-and-water rinse was was necessary. One particular 1910 Barber dime I have comes to mind, though I have no picture of it.

This old token came out of the ground looking like this, and was surprisingly shallow. Considering how big it is and how heavily hunted the park it came out of was, it is all the more surprising. Maybe the other detectorists disregarded the loud signal it made because they thought it was an aluminum can. Anyway, a little Vaseline was all it needed.

One of my more noteworthy coin finds was also very nice when it came out of the ground, though I cannot now claim it is 100% original. I could have left it alone after a simple rinse, but it had been buried in reddish clay soil and I confess I used a little toothpaste on it to get some of the strange looking reddish color off of it.

Fairlaneman · July 12, 2004 2:23PM

Original and pretty.

Nice coins folks.

fountainheadgold · July 12, 2004 2:31PM

Smitty79 · July 12, 2004 2:31PM

oldcameoproofsguy · July 12, 2004 2:42PM

It would take a really good Dr to conjure up something like this.

Tonelover · July 12, 2004 3:02PM

Original is as original does.

Hadleydog · July 12, 2004 6:28PM

theboz11 · July 12, 2004 7:14PM

I think it's original

GOLDSAINT · July 12, 2004 7:49PM

Good Morning!

Gonfunko · July 12, 2004 9:16PM

The best looking large cent I've ever seen:

The color's a perfect medium brown, with darkening on the high points making it about EF40-EF45, and not a mark on it! A nice ebay find for just $75, ($20 if some

hadn't have tried to snipe it!) The seller actaully called it VG (!) For those wondering, it's a N3. The marks you see towards the top are on the slab, not the coin.