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LIBERTAS

Libertas personnifies liberty or freedom and is the allegorical figure upon which our American symbol of liberty is based. Her attributes are a sceptre and pileus (small pointed cap). The image of Libertas on the right graces the reverse of a Sestertius struck in the name of the boy emperor Gordianus III.


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