Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Original dies)
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint)
Dupre, Augustin · 1776

Libertas Americana, United States, 1782-3
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

John Eager Howard at the Cowpens, United States, 1781/1881 (U.S. Mint copy dies)
United States Mint · 1781

Nathanael Greene at Eutaw Springs, France, 1781 (Original dies)
United States Mint · 1781

Horatio Gates at Saratoga, France, 1777 (Paris Mint)
United States Mint · 1777

Louis XVI--Roi de France
Pierre Adrien Le Beau, French, born Paris, France 1748-died after 1804 · n.d.

Horatio Gates at Saratoga, United States, 1777 (Original dies at the U.S. Mint)
United States Mint · 1777

Horatio Gates at Saratoga, United States, 1777 (Struck from the original French dies by the U.S. Mint)
United States Mint · 1777

Horatio Gates at Saratoga, France, 1777 (Paris Mint)
United States Mint · 1777
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 102800 matched · 40 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 14:24 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.