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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2718010, member: 83956&quot;]Would anyone like to comment on the &quot;meaning&quot; of the reverse? If it meant &quot;The freedom of the Empress,&quot; or something like that, we&#039;d expect &quot;Libertas Augustae.&quot; Is <i>Augusta </i>a title here for the personification? Like &quot;Lady Liberty&quot;? And what does &quot;Libertas&quot; mean, exactly, in imperial Rome?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m asking because the reverse seems deceptively simple. &quot;It&#039;s celebrating liberty,&quot; one might say. But once one presses the issue of the exact meaning of the legend, and even the contextual limits of &quot;liberty&quot; in the first-century, to me the reverse doesn&#039;t seem so self-evident. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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