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Nerva, 18 September 96 - 25 January 98 A.D.
| Libertas (Latin for Liberty) was the Roman goddess and embodiment of liberty. Nerva maintained that he had liberated Rome from the tyranny of Domitian and restored a constitutionally-based regime. 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). |  |
SH87510. Silver denarius, RIC II 19, RSC II 113, BMCRE III 46, BnF III 32, Hunter I 22, SRCV II -, gVF, well centered, attractive toning, radiating flow lines, scratches, die wear, Rome mint, weight 3.522g, maximum diameter 18.7mm, die axis 180o, Jan - Sep 97 A.D.; obverse IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P, laureate head right; reverse LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas standing half left, pileus in right hand, rod pointing up slightly right in left hand; ex Numismatik Naumann, auction 63 (4 Mar 2018), lot 865; SOLD
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