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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2891155, member: 76194&quot;]Liberata means free. Maybe the mint slave working on the die was due to gain his freedom and decided to take some liberties with the inscription out of joy? Remember, being a mint worker was not a prestigious position at all in Rome. The mint workers were all slaves and freedmen. The triumvirs who oversaw the mint were patricians, and they got to put their name on coinage, but the poor guys melting the bars, cutting the dies, and striking the coins were slaves and freedmen, as they could be beaten for debasing the coinage, theft, or other transgressions. As you could not whip a citizen, they were not considered ideal for minting duties and thus the job was a disreputable profession meant only for the lowest of the low in the social ladder. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Source: </b>Bond, Sarah. <i><u>Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean</u></i>, Pgs. 130-132. Published 2016.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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