Diocletian GENIO POPVLI ROMANI from Cyzicus...patina of the day

[Victor]

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

[Heliodromus]

Very nice - can't recall ever having seen that vivid a blue on an LRB before.

Some Alconox should clean that up. 

[Victor]

Yeah...I figured I would just go straight to electrolysis and strip it down.