Post Your coin with a great Patina.

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by BenSi, Feb 14, 2019.

  1. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Patinas

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    KYRENAICA Kyrene Æ25 9.6g 250 BCE Diademed Zeus-Ammon r - K-O-I-N-O-N; Silphium plant; monogram SNG Cop 1278 BMC 16-19


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    RR Anon AE Quartuncia 217-215 BCE Saturn Prow BRN Craw 38-8 Sear 624


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    Sicily Kamarina AE 15mm 3.4g 420-405 BCE Athena Owl Lizard 3 dots Sear Gk 1063
     
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  3. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Since everyone is into green, how about LIME?

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    Judaea Pontius Pilate 14-37 CE - Prutah TIBEPIOY KAICAPOC Lituus
     
  4. octavius

    octavius Well-Known Member

    Wow! The coins on this thread are just overwhelmingly beautiful. So many I couldn't begin to comment. Does anyone have the very large and beautiful book "Le Preziose Patine dei Sesterzi di Roma Imperiale" by Elio Biaggi? It's in Italian and some English - but easy to follow. It has some amazing coins with gorgeous patinas. The book is
    a little difficult to find, but well worth the effort. A couple of my Tibers...
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  5. tenbobbit

    tenbobbit Well-Known Member

    A couple to add to the Green Gang -
    Macrinus -
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    Macrinus & Diadumenian -
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    A Green & Red combo - Galerius
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  6. cwart

    cwart Senior Member Supporter

    My humble contribution to the many beautiful coins posted so far...

    A bit of blue....
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    And a nice dark patina...
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  7. ruud1301

    ruud1301 Well-Known Member

    From an earlier post..Macrinus..reverse Nemessis Screenshot_2018-12-01-15-38-05.png Screenshot_2018-12-01-15-38-20.png a sort of green blue..patina.
     
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  8. ruud1301

    ruud1301 Well-Known Member

    And a Licinius II..follis.ric VII 49r Nicomedia sandy patina.
     
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    ruud1301 Well-Known Member

  10. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    is your OP coin that green?
    nice specimen

    best

    eric
     
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  11. Haren

    Haren New Member

    I like when a silver coin has a nice dark non destructive horn silver.

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  12. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    Sabina As Roma 128-136 AD Concordia
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  13. Limes

    Limes Well-Known Member

    Great coins! I see many members like green patina as well. Although i love the golden-yellowish of the trajanus dupondius below a lot too. It has some pitting, but that does not make it any less appealing for me. Here are some of my favourites.

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  14. Limes

    Limes Well-Known Member

    By the way, does anyone have a link to a understandable article or post, about how patina's originate and why some coins turn green, others brown, etc.? I 've seen something about contact with water before ('tiber patina'?) but im not sure how it works and im very interested in learning more about it. Thanks!

    And a bonus, so to say, to add to this great thread.

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  15. dlhill132

    dlhill132 Member

    WOW, awesome patinas everyone!
    Doug
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  16. BenSi

    BenSi Well-Known Member

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    Anonymous (Magn.) AE Tetarteron – SBCV-2156 DOC IV 8 Circa 13th century

    OBV- Head of Flower

    REV – Two B’s back to back decorated with pellets. Pellet in loops of letter to r.

    Size 18.11

    Weight 1.9gm

    DOC lists only one example, no weight 21mm
     
  17. Valentinian

    Valentinian Well-Known Member

    CoinTalk's ancient forum lists twenty threads with the most recent posts. Threads can go pretty quickly from page 1 to out of sight on page 2. I thought I should look back a few pages to see if I had missed anything and I had--this thread!

    Here is a nice FEL TEMP REPARATIO with an unusual red tone, bought in 1979 in St. Paul, Minnesota (hotbed of ancient coins! :)):
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    Constantius II, 337-361. 23 mm.
    FEL TEMP REPARATIO, solider spearing fallen horseman
    Γ in upper left field, ANB in exergue.
    RIC Antioch 132B. Very common (but not with this color). Struck c. 350.
     
  18. Cucumbor

    Cucumbor Well-Known Member

    I wasn't aware of Constantius II having been as far as Minnesota !
    Beautiful toning on that one !

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  19. PeteB

    PeteB Well-Known Member

    Constans. 337-350 AD. Æ (16mm). Siscia mint, 1st officina. Struck 347 AD. Obv: Rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Rev: Victory advancing left, holding wreath in each hand; Christogram to right; ✴ASIS✴in exergue. RIC VIII 181.
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  20. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    I liked this Nero dupondius a lot more before I tried to capture it on a photo. I learned a lot about being green from this coin.
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    Coins with an overall, even red patina are hard to find but this Antonia dupondius contrasts nicely with the orichalcum where the red has worn off.
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    Blue is another hard color. This Commodus 2 assaria of Dionysopolis is as blue as any coin I have.
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    Glossy black is also a hard one to capture accurately in a photo. This is Magnentius AE2.
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    I really don't consider the 'sand patina' to be a real patina but, like the 'Tiber patina' below it, I really don't have a better name to offer. Crispus AE3 of Rome:
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    Nero dupondius
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  21. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    You wouldn't know it from the sellers' photos, but these coins have lovely patinas.

    Sellers' photos:

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    Philip I and Otacilia Marcianopolis Serapis Savoca.jpg
    Gallienus LIBERO P CONS AVG tiger antoninianus Naumann.jpg

    Rephotographed in sunlight:

    Severus Alexander Marcianopolis Asklepios.jpg
    Philip I and Otacilia Marcianopolis Serapis.jpg
    Gallienus LIBERO P CONS AVG tiger antoninianus sunlight.jpg
     
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