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    "localId": "24516",
    "label": "Coin of Helena Augusta",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.638"
}

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    "id": "24516",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.638",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Coin of Helena Augusta",
    "description": "Obverse: Bust of Helena, diademed, draped, right; solid border. Reverse: Securitas standing left, holding branch downward in right hand. This coin was issued under the authority of the emperor Constantine I (the Great) for his mother, Helena.",
    "provenance": "Harold Landon, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1943, by gift.",
    "date": "318-319 CE (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.638",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "coins"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS4_59.638_Obv_DD_AT22_38017-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS4_59.638_Obv_DD_AT22_38017-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max diam: 3/4 in. (1.97 cm); axis: 6:00"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Latin; obverse] FL(avia) HELENA AVGVSTA [Translation] Flavia Helena Augusta [Inscription",
        "Latin; reverse] SECVRITAS REIPVBLICE; in exergue",
        "S(acra) M(oneta) T(he)S(salonica) A [Translation] Security of the Republic; the sacred mint of Thessalonica",
        "first mint office"
    ],
    "med": "bronze; struck",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "NUM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_59.638_Rev_DD_AT22_38016-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "4d427b74ab13c946"
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