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{
    "localId": "36209",
    "label": "Coin Box with the Bust of Julius Caesar",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/73.24"
}

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    "id": "36209",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/73.24",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Coin Box with the Bust of Julius Caesar",
    "description": "Since the top is decorated with the bust of Julius Caesar, this coin box was probably meant for Roman coins of Roman rulers. Coin collecting was popular among the educated of the 16th and 17th centuries. Coins offered historical documentation for the representation of rulers and their families, especially the Roman emperors, symbolic for the Habsburgs and those in their circles.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1600 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/73.24",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "boxes (containers)",
        "coin holders",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_73.24_3QtrClosd_DD_T15.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_73.24_3QtrClosd_DD_T15.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_73.24_3QtrClosd_DD_T15.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.1,
            "height": 12.5,
            "depth": 25.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 × W: 4 15/16 × L: 9 7/8 in. (5.08 × 12.54 × 25.08 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "wood, leather, silk, velvet, gilded copper alloy, pigmented paint, gold leaf",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6200"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2506",
        "3360"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_73.24_Lft_DD_T15.jpg",
    "mediaId": "a335999fd749cab1"
}