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    "localId": "144320",
    "label": "Quarter Stater: Tree (obverse); Plain Field (reverse)",
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}

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    "id": "144320",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Quarter Stater: Tree (obverse); Plain Field (reverse)",
    "description": "The smaller size of the quarter stater left the artist little room for design. Apparently he was unable to reduce the stater design to such small dimensions. The meaningless jumble is probably part of a larger design.",
    "date": "c. 125–20 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.144",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79921361"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.144/1969.144_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 1 cm (3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England"
    ],
    "accession": "1969.144"
}

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    "tec": "gold",
    "tombstone": "Quarter Stater: Tree (obverse); Plain Field (reverse), c. 125–20 BCE. England. Gold; diameter: 1 cm (3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1969.144",
    "collection": "MED - Numismatics",
    "didYouKnow": "The tree-like trophy in the center sits on top of three ringed pellets, surrounded by various motifs.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Emery May Norweb. English Gold Coins, Ancient to Modern Times, On Loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art from the Norweb Collection. 1968.",
            "page_number": "pp. 3"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Emery May Norweb Collection (Cleveland, Ohio), Emery May Norweb, C. E. Blunt, F. Elmore Jones, and R. P. Mack. Collection of Ancient British, Romano-British and English Coins. London: Spink, 1971.",
            "page_number": "pp. 17-18"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.144",
    "creditline": "The Norweb Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:24:37.730000",
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    "sourceId": 144320,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Numismatics",
    "med": "gold",
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    "image_url": null
}

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