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    "localId": "3306",
    "label": "Sestertius of Maximinus Thrax",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.535"
}

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    "id": "3306",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.535",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sestertius of Maximinus Thrax",
    "description": "Obverse: Bust of Maximinus Thrax, laureate, draped, right; beaded border. Reverse: Pax standing frontal, looking left, holding a branch in her right hand and a rod in the left. The thickness of this piece as well as other irregularities indicate it may not be an authentic sestertius of Maximinus Thrax.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "236-238 CE or modern (Late Roman Imperial or modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.535",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "coins"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_59.535_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_59.535_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.9,
            "height": 0.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max diam: 1 1/8 × D: 3/16 in. (2.89 × 0.55 cm); axis: 12:00"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Latin; obverse] MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG(ustus) GERM(anicus) [Translation] Maximinus Pius Augustus Germanicus [Inscription",
        "Latin; reverse] PAX AVGVSTI; in field",
        "S(enatus) C(onsulto) [Translation] The Emperor’s Peace; by senatorial decree"
    ],
    "med": "bronze; struck",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_59.535_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "22b889f7ff9f2c27"
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