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    "localId": "10723",
    "label": "Tetradrachm of King Nicodemus II",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.723"
}

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    "id": "10723",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.723",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tetradrachm of King Nicodemus II",
    "description": "Obverse: Head of Nicomedes II, diademed, draped, right.  Reverse: Zeus, laureate, standing, draped, right, holding scepter with left hand, right hand crowning the royal inscription with a laurel wreath; in the field left, the eagle of Zeus, left, holding lightning bolts in its claws; complex monogram beneath; CΞP (control mark).",
    "provenance": "Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1966, by purchase.",
    "date": "149-120 BCE (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.723",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Coins & Medals",
        "coins"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_59.723_Back_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.33 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Greek; reverse] ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟΥ [Translation] Of King Nicomedes Epiphanes"
    ],
    "med": "silver; struck",
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    ],
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        "NUM"
    ],
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    ]
}

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