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Nerva, 18 September 96 - 25 January 98 A.D.
| Nerva maintained that he had liberated Rome from the tyranny of Domitian and restored a constitutionally-based regime. Libertas (Latin for Liberty) was the Roman goddess and embodiment of liberty. The pileus liberatis was a soft felt cap worn by liberated slaves of Troy and Asia Minor. In late Republican Rome, the pileus was symbolically given to slaves upon manumission, granting them not only their personal liberty, but also freedom as citizens with the right to vote (if male). Following the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., Brutus and his co-conspirators used the pileus to signify the end of Caesar's dictatorship and a return to a Republican system of government. The pileus was adopted as a popular symbol of freedom during the French Revolution and was also depicted on some U.S. coins. On the Seated Liberty dollar, Liberty raises up a pileus (freedom cap) on a rod (liberty pole). |  |
RS85485. Silver denarius, RIC II 31, RSC II 117, BMCRE III 61, Hunter I 7, SRCV II -, Choice gF, excellent portrait, well centered, Rome mint, weight 3.426g, maximum diameter 18.9mm, die axis 180o, 97 A.D.; obverse IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS II P P, laureate head right; reverse LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas standing half left, head left, pileus in extended right hand, scepter in left hand; SOLD
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