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Offline Victor

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I bought this one just for the attractive green and blue patina


Diocletian
A.D. 295-6
28mm 7.8g
IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG; laureate head right
GENIO POPVLI ROMANI; Genius standing left, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder & modius on head, with patera from which liquor flows
In ex. KS
RIC VI Cyzicus 12a


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Re: Diocletian GENIO POPVLI ROMANI from Cyzicus...patina of the day
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2023, 03:08:58 PM »
Very nice - can't recall ever having seen that vivid a blue on an LRB before.

Some Alconox should clean that up.  ;)

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Re: Diocletian GENIO POPVLI ROMANI from Cyzicus...patina of the day
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2023, 10:36:52 PM »
Yeah...I figured I would just go straight to electrolysis and strip it down.  ;D