Pink is beautiful !

This new baby found its place recently in my trays because of its incredible colours : a glossy dark green and veronese green (almost) patina (fricken tough to take pictures of BTW) with pink cuprite deposits on the reverse. One can also see some yellow due to bare metal (orichalcum) appearing on the edge. It's a scarce sestertius of Marcus Aurelius' celebrating victory upon the Germans with a very appealing (to me) five lines text on the reverse :



Marcus Aurelius, Sestertius Rome mint, AD 173
M ANTONINVS AVG TRP XXVII, Laureate bust of Mercus Aurelius right
VICT / GERM / IMP VI / COS III / SC in five lines within a laurel wreath
20,50 gr, 30 mm
Ref : RCV # 5015, C # 995 (15), RIC #1090
Ex Besançon Numismatique

Feel free to post anything you think is relevant : cool patina, Marcus Aurelius, Germans, victories. No underpants please

Q

 

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Pretty coin!

 

Almost a rainbow of colors. Very nice example.

 

Nice find!

 

Wow! A CALICO! Very nice patina variance, and a great coun! Congrats on that scarce capture!

 

Nice coin @Cucumbor! Any MA with colorful patina is a score!

 

Gee, did your son (daughter) paint it themselves ?
Anyway, fantastic colours !

Q

 

Very nice Q

 

Beautiful!

 

Neat Marcus coin Cucumbor, with a great colour scheme, love those original patina's. Speaking of patina's......this Nero provision market has none, looks like it might have had a black one at some stage now just orichalcum.

 

Thats pretty neat, first time I'm seeing pink on an ancient.

 

Great coin, Q. I've never seen bubblegum pink on a coin before. I almost hate to say that I like it, but I do .

Only some of the colours on this Sep Sev were the result of my inept cleaning efforts...

 

Bubblegum pink? PeptoBismol pink? I've never seen that before. Interesting!

Here's a coin that was psychedelic but I cleaned it. It turned out very well but in a way I miss the riot of colors.

Before
(Looks like a black light poster. Break out the Lava Lamp and Pink Floyd )



After:

PONTOS, Amisos. 85-65 BCE. AE29. Helmeted head of Athena right / AMIΣOY; Perseus standing facing, holding harpa and head of Medusa, Medusa's body at his feet

 

Nice pink coin. I have a similar Marcus Aurelius, minus the pink.

 

Here's a bunch of red patina on this Alexandrian tet of Nero and Claudia Octavia:

 

I like the five lines also @Cucumbor

 

I was trying to find how to define the colour, but that's exactly what it is, bubblegum pink !

Q

 

Ctesiphon, Iraq
Ardashir I (AD 180-242)
(r. AD 224-242)
AR Drachm 24.6 mm x 4.13 grams
Obverse: Cuirassed bust of Ardashir I right in Parthian Headdress. Pahlavi legend- MAZDISN BAGI ARTAHSHATER MALKAN AIRAN"of the worshiper of Mazda, the divine Ardashir, King of Kings of Iran"
Reverse: Zoroastrian Fire Alter with two attendants Pahlavi legend "NURAZI ARTASHATR "Fire of Ardashir"
ref: Gobl type III/2

 

I think I wouldn't have touched it : the before pic is beautiful, and probably wouldn't dare cleaning it, even though the after pic reveals more details

Q

 

The closest thing I have to a psychedelic technicolor dreamcoat.



Though the patina on Chinese coins can be quite colorful.