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    "localId": "38946",
    "label": "Quarter-Stater of Alexander III",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.702"
}

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    "id": "38946",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.702",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Quarter-Stater of Alexander III",
    "description": "Obverse: Head of Athena, helmeted, right.  Reverse: Nike standing left, draped, holding a staff in her left hand, a wreath in her right; in field to left, above, MI; below, a ligature MP encircled by a wreath.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John Walsh, Sr. [date of acquisition unknown], by gift; John Walsh, 2nd [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1948, by purchase.",
    "date": "311-305 BCE (Early Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.702",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "coins"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_59.702_Back_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max diam: 1/4 in. (0.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Greek; reverse] ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ [Translation] Of King Alexander"
    ],
    "med": "gold; struck",
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    ],
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        "NUM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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