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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Adoptive Emperors| > |Commodus| > RS94703
Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D.
|Commodus|, |Commodus,| |March| |or| |April| |177| |-| |31| |December| |192| |A.D.|,
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). Seated Liberty
RS94703. Silver denarius, BMCRE IV 309 (also star right), RIC III 241, RSC II 288, Hunter V -, SRCV II -, aVF, well centered on a tight flan, toned, scattered mild porosity, reverse die wear, tiny edge cracks, Rome mint, weight 1.806g, maximum diameter 17.1mm, die axis 315o, 192 A.D.; obverse L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL, laureate head right; reverse LIB AVG P M TR P XVII COS VII P P, Libertas standing slightly left, head left, pileus (freedom cap - worn by freed slaves) in right hand, vindicta (rod) in vertical in left hand, star right field; from the Ray Nouri Collection; SOLD











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