to minimize the decrease in transmittance as well as to minimize any decrease in the reflectivity of the silver layer the coated article has a bright gold appearance from the glass side resulting from both interference effects and absorption properties of the stainless steel oxide which absorbs nearly 30 percent at a wavelength of 4000 angstroms but only about 5 percent at wavelengths of 5500 angstroms and higher the stainless steel composition used in this example is the 316 alloy which comprises about 68 percent iron 17 percent chromium 12 percent nickel and 2 25 percent molybdenum the luminous reflectance of the coated article is 67 7 percent from the coated surface and 52 9 percent from the glass side the reflected color has dominant wavelengths of 579 and 576 and excitation purities of 15 2 and 42 4 from the coated and glass sides respectively in a double glazed unit the coated article provides a shading coefficient of 0 17 and summer and winter u values of 0 30 coated articles reflecting various colors ranging from greenish yellow through yellow yellowish orange orange reddish orange and red to purple are prepared by depositing stainless steel oxide silver and stainless steel as in example i to various relative thicknesses while the thicknesses are not measured directly the transmittance after each sputtering step are indicative of the individual layer thicknesses the varying thicknesses are obtained by varying the power to the cathode and or the number of passes under a cathode in the following table the transmittances are shown after the deposition of the first layer of stainless steel oxide.