Marcus Aurelius Sestertius Spring ANA Pickup With Unusual Patina

Here is another pickup from the Spring ANA show in Orlando, also known as the least talked about coin show in history.

This coin has an unusual patina that caught my eye. The portrait and lettering have bluish deposits around them while the rest of the coin is very dark brown. The photo makes the fields look lighter than they really are and does not show off the blue very well. I will have to try again to get a better photo. Maybe more diffuse lighting will help?



Marcus Aurelius
A.D. 161-180 AE Sestertius 26.76 grams
Rome Mint A.D. 161
Obverse: Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: Concordia seated left, holding patera, left elbow resting on small statue of Spes; below chair, cornucopia.
RIC III 794 var., BMCRE 840 var. (same); Banti 19.

Post your coins with unusual patinas!

John

 

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Nice. Love the coloring

 

Have wondered that also John. Perhaps most folks were off (elsewhere) on spring break?

Nice coin and I was there.

 

Damn that's a beautiful coin.

 

Good looking Sestertius, I like blue coins

 

oh wow, what a pretty color for a sweet big ol' sestertius!

 

Wowzer!! ...

=> Theodosius, that OP-addition is a total winner!! (awesome eye-appeal)



I'll try to toss-in a few unusual patina coins later tonight (or tomorrow)

Congrats again (yah, I am a bit ... a lot jealous of that baby ... well done)

 

a domitian left head not a unsual coin

Domitan dupondius concoridia in titus time
this one is is the best what listed on https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...&images=1&currency=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&co

 

Great coin!

 

Hmmm, one man's unusual is another man's normal ... but sure, I'll make an attempt to add a few unusual patina examples!









... a few of those are kinda pretty, eh?

 

Lovely light blue patina , like it.
Here's my Marcus Aurelius ses with gold reddish patina on the obverse:

 

A nice sestertius of Marcus Aurelius.
Unusual patina, as you say!

 

I have a Gordian III sestertius with that toothpaste-color-blue patina over the entire surface. I also think it's black underneath:

 

This sestertius of Antoninus Pius has a mottled blue/green patina, probably a bit to thick although still good detail coming through. And another AP Sestertius with multicoloured patina.

 

Just got my first sestertius in the mail and I'm in love with this large coin. I'm going to have to get more.

As an aside, what's up with his eyeball?

 

Cool coins
This one is like Stevex. I'm not able to access my coin info at this moment

Blue looks good on a coin

 

I really like a blue and hopefully natural patina.

 

Fantastic coin, Smojo ... I'm assuming that those blue/green crusties are nice and hard, eh? (very pretty patina => congrats)

man, I love that coin-type (congrats again on a very sweet looking example)

 

A very attractive coin!

It almost looks like the eye feature is actually a corrosion spot rather than something in the original dies. Does anyone else have a Roman coin with this style eye?

John

 

i don't know, but that's a freaky lQQkin' "i" 2bsure