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    "localId": "144354",
    "label": "Stater: BODVOC on plain field (obverse); Horse, Wheel, and Crescent (reverse)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
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    "id": "144354",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Stater: BODVOC on plain field (obverse); Horse, Wheel, and Crescent (reverse)",
    "description": "On coins in this same series the obverse legend (BODVOC) changes position. On some it is central across the field and complete, on others above and incomplete as seen here. As far as is known Bodvoc was one of the rulers of the Dobunni tribe. The horse has become even more crude, made up of lines and pellets and rough curves. The spokes of the wheel fail to meet nearly at the center.",
    "date": "10 BCE–20 CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.155",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79921436"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Coins"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.155/1969.155_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.155/1969.155_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 1.8 cm (11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, Dobunni"
    ],
    "accession": "1969.155"
}

{
    "tec": "gold",
    "tombstone": "Stater: BODVOC on plain field (obverse); Horse, Wheel, and Crescent (reverse), 10 BCE–20 CE. England, Dobunni. Gold; diameter: 1.8 cm (11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1969.155",
    "collection": "MED - Numismatics",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "BODVO[C]."
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The Dobunni were a tribe that lived on the British Isles prior to the Roman invasion of Britain.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 21-22"
        },
        {
            "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. 14"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.155",
    "creditline": "The Norweb Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:24:46.392000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.155/1969.155_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 144354,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Numismatics",
    "med": "gold",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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