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    "localId": "26393",
    "label": "Aureus of Licinius",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.691"
}

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    "id": "26393",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.691",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Aureus of Licinius",
    "description": "Obverse: Bust of Licinius II, draped with cloak, frontal. Reverse: Jupiter, enthroned, frontal, holding scepter in left hand and Victory in right hand; Victory, right, offers a wreath; eagle of Jupiter to left below, holding wreath in beak; in exergue, Γ (officina mark).",
    "provenance": "Edward Gans, New York, [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1946, by purchase.",
    "date": "321-322 CE (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.691",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "coins"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_59.691_Obv_BW_T99.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_59.691_Obv_BW_T99.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_59.691_Obv_BW_T99.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max diam: 13/16 in. (2.16 cm); axis: 12:00"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Latin; obverse] LICINIVS AVG(ustus) OB D(iem) V (quinquennalium) FILII SVI [Translation] Licinius Augustus on the occasion of his son’s fifth birthday [Inscription",
        "Latin; reverse] IOVI CONS(ervatori) LICINI(us) AVG(ustus); platform inscribed",
        "SIC X SIC XX; in exergue",
        "S(acra) M(oneta) N(icomediae) [Translation] Licinius Augustus (makes a vow) to Jupiter the Protector: just as (he has ruled for) ten (years",
        ") so (let him rule for) twenty; sacred mint of Nicomedia",
        "third mint office"
    ],
    "med": "gold; struck",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "246",
        "2752"
    ]
}

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