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{
    "localId": "23526",
    "label": "Semis (Aes Grave) of the Roman Republic",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.538"
}

{
    "id": "23526",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.538",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Semis (Aes Grave) of the Roman Republic",
    "description": "Obverse: Bull rearing, left; below, S (denomination mark).  Reverse: Six-spoked wheel; within spokes, S (denomination mark).",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "269-240 BCE (Roman Republican)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.538",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "coins"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_59.538_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_59.538_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_59.538_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max diam: 2 1/16 × D: 1/2 in., Wt: 0.3 lb. (5.3 × 1.24 cm, 134.5 g)"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Latin; obverse] S(emis) [Translation] Semis (ie: worth ½ an as) [Inscription",
        "Latin; reverse] S(emis) [Translation] Semis"
    ],
    "med": "bronze; cast",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_59.538_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "3d27fce5790da3a2"
}