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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8204413, member: 57495"]Here's my Diocletian follis, also from Ticinum. You can see that it too has a slightly yellow underlying hue. It was sold as being from the Giovanni Dattari collection of Roman coins. Many of Dattari's LRBs seemed to have been stripped of their patinas at some point in the past, before later retoning to varying extents.</p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1438113[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>DIOCLETIAN</b></p><p>AE Follis. 8.33g, 27.5mm. Ticinum mint, AD 294-295. RIC VI Ticinum 23a (scarce). O: IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head right. R: GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing left, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae; T in exergue.</p><p><i>Ex Giovanni Dattari Collection (1853-1923)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8204413, member: 57495"]Here's my Diocletian follis, also from Ticinum. You can see that it too has a slightly yellow underlying hue. It was sold as being from the Giovanni Dattari collection of Roman coins. Many of Dattari's LRBs seemed to have been stripped of their patinas at some point in the past, before later retoning to varying extents. [ATTACH=full]1438113[/ATTACH] [B]DIOCLETIAN[/B] AE Follis. 8.33g, 27.5mm. Ticinum mint, AD 294-295. RIC VI Ticinum 23a (scarce). O: IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head right. R: GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing left, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae; T in exergue. [I]Ex Giovanni Dattari Collection (1853-1923)[/I][/QUOTE]
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