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Wiki Phrygian cap
The Phrygian cap (/ˈfrɪdʒ(iː)ən/ FRIJ-(ee)-ən) or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including the Persians, the Medes and the Scythians, as well as in the Balkans, Dacia, Thrace and in Phrygia, where the name originated.[1] The oldest depiction of the Phrygian cap is from Persepolis in Iran.
Now meet the Paris 2024 summer Olympics mascot
Olympic Phryge
The name of the Paris 2024 mascot is Olympic Phryge, based on the traditional small Phrygian hats that the mascots are shaped after. The name and design were chosen as symbols of freedom and to represent allegorical figures of the French republic.
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This Phrygian cap/Pileus represented just a tiny change in the course of history:
Struck during the late summer/early autumn of 42 B.C, roughly two-and-a-half years after the fateful, history-altering assassination of Rome's dictator for life, Julius Caesar, the "EID MAR" Denarius was meant to convey Brutus's view that the latter had been slain for the good of the republic. The two daggers allude wholly directly to the means by which Caesar had been assassinated, with the Phrygian cap in the middle, an ancient symbol worn by freed slaves upon manumission, meant to reinforce the concept of the republic's freedom from tyranny.
Meanwhile, if this rather succinct iconography weren't enough to remind the populace of the act commemorated, the timestamp of the assassination itself points specifically to it. Roman calendrical dating was slightly different than that with which we are familiar, with days referenced with respect to three specific points during the month.
The Ides was treated as the 15th of "full" months, such as March, so the day on which Caesar was stabbed in the Senate would have been referred to in Latin as "Eidibus Martiis," or "on the Ides of March." So iconic and famous was this particular coin design that the classical author Cassius Dio, in Roman History 47, 25, 3, wrote that "...Brutus stamped upon the coins which were being minted his own likeness and a cap and two daggers, indicating by this and by the inscription that he and Cassius had liberated the fatherland."
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This one too:
This pesos have it too;
Cuartilla:
And two pesos:
It took me a while to find a Mexico 8 reales that was dated in the mid 1830s. I saw many of them dated in later years, but I wanted one dated on or before 1836.
I wanted it because I was looking for something that might have been the inspiration for this pattern gold dollar that the Philadelphia first struck in 1836. The mint made restrikes for years after that, which has made this coin the most common U.S. pattern in gold.
In 1836, the Philadelphia Mint had moved to its new facility which greatly expanded its capacity. One project for the new facility was to issue a one dollar coin for the first time in over 30 years. Oddly enough the U.S. flagship coin had not been issued since 1804 in response to President Thomas Jefferson's executive order to end the production of the coin. He thought that it was facilitating the export of silver out of the U.S.
The logical course was to issue the silver dollar again, but the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Levi Woodbury, thought that a gold dollar might be considered also. The Director of Mint, Robert Patterson though otherwise. To him a small gold coin would be an embarrassment to the U.S. In his opinion, only small countries of little consequence issued such coins. Still he pleased his boss and had the patter gold dollar produced.
As you can see, the design was something less than original. I doubt that Christian Gobrecht had not seen the Mexican coin.
For the record, the Gobrecht Dollar, which also has a Phrygian cap, was the start for the finial choice which would be the Liberty Seated design.
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I like that 1884 8 reales
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I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Gold restrike.
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