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    "localId": "1053",
    "label": "Denarius of Lucius Titurius Sabinus",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.766"
}

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    "id": "1053",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.766",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Denarius of Lucius Titurius Sabinus",
    "description": "Obverse: Head of Sabine king Titus Tatius, right; beaded border. Reverse: Two cloaked soldiers, facing inward, each carrying a Sabine woman; beaded border. The iconography of this coin is an elaborate pun on the issuer’s name (Titurius Sabinus).",
    "provenance": "Mrs. Sidney C. Doolittle, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1974, by gift.",
    "date": "89 BCE (Roman Republican)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.766",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "coins"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_59.766_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max diam: 3/4 in. (1.86 cm); axis: 9:00"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Latin; obverse] SABIN(us) [Translation] Sabinus [Inscription",
        "Latin; reverse] L(ucius) TITVRI(us) [Translation] Lucius Titurius"
    ],
    "med": "silver; struck",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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