Strange War Coral Coloration?

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So while moving some rocks around the tank yesterday I accidentally knocked loose a ledge holding my War coral favia, Now I know the standard coloration is blue and red or purple and red in my case with green eyes, but while I was looking at the coral up close since I had the chance I noticed on the back side that wasn't getting much light the favia had a gold color rather than red or purple, so For this case I would say the coral was red, purple, gold, all with green eyes. Is this normal for there to be a gold coloration? I'v never seen it before so wondering if anyone else has something like this, thought it was very cool! I want to upload some pictures but I'm having trouble since my iPhone isn't synced to this computer, but I will try!

Let me know if anyone else has seen something like this!
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The whole coral is in medium light in my tank, but that golden part was backed up against a rock wall almost so very very little light reached it. Definatly looks awesome though!
 

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