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{
    "localId": "291",
    "label": "Dupondius of Domitian",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.646"
}

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    "id": "291",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.646",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dupondius of Domitian",
    "description": "Obverse: Head of Domitian, radiate, right; beaded border.  Reverse: Fortuna, standing left, draped, holding cornucopia in left hand, rudder in right; beaded border. This dupondius was worth 1/200 of a gold aureus.",
    "provenance": "Harold Landon, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1943, by gift.",
    "date": "90-91 CE (Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.646",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "coins"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_59.646_Obverse_DD_T15.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_59.646_Obverse_DD_T15.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_59.646_Obverse_DD_T15.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Latin; obverse] IMP(erator) CAES(ar) DOMIT(ianus) AVG(ustus) GERM(anicus) CO(n)S(ul) XV CENS(or) PER(petuus) P(ater) P(atriae) [Translation] Imperator",
        "Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus",
        "consul for the 15th time",
        "permanent censor",
        "father of his country [Inscription",
        "Latin; reverse] FORTVNAE AVGVSTI; S(enatus) C(onsulto) [Translation] To the fortune of the Augustus",
        "by senatorial decree"
    ],
    "dynasty": "Flavian Dynasty",
    "reign": "Domitian (AD 81-96)",
    "med": "bronze; struck",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "NUM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3360"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_59.646_Obverse_DD_T15.jpg",
    "mediaId": "595796b0a6d0e31f"
}