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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dready, post: 418899, member: 11674&quot;]<span style="color: #008000"><a href="http://fieldnotebook.com/coins/mercurydime.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://fieldnotebook.com/coins/mercurydime.html" rel="nofollow">http://fieldnotebook.com/coins/mercurydime.html</a> </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">&quot;The hat is a Phrygian cap, which originally came, oddly enough, from Phrygia (now part of Turkey). In Greek art, popping a Phrygian cap on someone&#039;s head means he was a foreigner, but in Rome it was worn by slaves who became freemen (meaning their kids would be free, too). It&#039;s used in the iconography of both the French Revolution and our revolution to symbolize freedom in general. Liberty is wearing one, or waving it about on a stick, on many of our early coins.&quot; The 1795 Half Cent has a variety listed in The Red Book. They call it &quot;cap with pole.&quot;. Hope this is what you were looking for... John</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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