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Coin Bank Shaped as a Beggar Girl in the Getty Villa, July 2008

Coin Bank Shaped as a Beggar Girl in the Getty Villa, July 2008
Coin Bank Shaped as a Beggar Girl
Roman, AD 25-50
Bronze and copper

Inventory # 72.AC.99

Made of expensive bronze, this coin bank is shaped as a beggar girl holding her hand out for money. The girl's other hand pulls down the front of her tunic, emphasizing the coin slot cut along the edge of her dress. Slaves in ancient art are often differentiated from free citizens only by details of their dress or by certain gestures.

Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

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