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<p>[QUOTE="sand, post: 8080355, member: 118540"]P.S. : Maybe the US coin designers decided, to make the top of the freedmen's hat (pileus) flop forward, even though it may not be historically accurate, because they didn't want to show Liberty wearing a "dunce" hat, or just because they thought it looked better. And/or, maybe they saw ancient images of the Phrygian cap, and thought the Phrygian cap was a freedmen's hat (pileus) with the top flopped forward. I don't know. I'll keep reading.</p><p>Here are 2 ancient depictions of the freedmen's hat (pileus), from the following Wikipedia article. Notice that one shows a pointy hat, and the other shows a rounded hat. I have not yet found, any ancient depictions, of a freedmen's hat (pileus), with the top of the hat flopped forward or backward or in any other direction. I don't know, if such ancient depictions exist.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus_(hat)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus_(hat)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus_(hat)</a></p><p>NOTE : This is not my coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1402911[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1402912[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sand, post: 8080355, member: 118540"]P.S. : Maybe the US coin designers decided, to make the top of the freedmen's hat (pileus) flop forward, even though it may not be historically accurate, because they didn't want to show Liberty wearing a "dunce" hat, or just because they thought it looked better. And/or, maybe they saw ancient images of the Phrygian cap, and thought the Phrygian cap was a freedmen's hat (pileus) with the top flopped forward. I don't know. I'll keep reading. Here are 2 ancient depictions of the freedmen's hat (pileus), from the following Wikipedia article. Notice that one shows a pointy hat, and the other shows a rounded hat. I have not yet found, any ancient depictions, of a freedmen's hat (pileus), with the top of the hat flopped forward or backward or in any other direction. I don't know, if such ancient depictions exist. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus_(hat)[/URL] NOTE : This is not my coin. [ATTACH=full]1402911[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1402912[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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