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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2891314, member: 76194&quot;]Yes, during Augustus&#039; time the mint stopped the practice of putting non-Imperial names in coins, however, the running of the mint largely remained unchanged and slaves and freedmen were used for the coining/die cutting process.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have evidence that slaves continued to be &quot;employed&quot; as mint workers well into the empire. It wasn&#039;t until after Aurelian that we see an influx of workers from other professions, with experience in carving and working with metal, being brought in to work at the mints. By the time of Constantine we know London Mint workers were certainly freedmen and citizens, and we have a surviving text that states when the London Mint shut down the workers returned to their former businesses and professions (So it seems very likely we are talking about non-slaves).</p><p><br /></p><p>However, during Gordian III&#039;s time the mints would have still been largely&nbsp; staffed by slaves and freedmen, hence my bit of fanciful imagining that maybe Liberatas had a hidden meaning and wasn&#039;t just a spelling mistake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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