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. 24 shown for “Silver denarius of M. Junius Brutus” — 57 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Silver denarius of M. Junius Brutus
Artist not stated in the record · 43–42 BCE

John, Edwin & Junius Booth
Jeremiah Gurney, 12 Oct 1812 - 21 Apr 1895 · November 1864

Silver denarius of Brutus
Artist not stated in the record · 54 BCE

Junius Brutus Booth as Sir Edward Mortimer
Artist not stated in the record · 1823

Silver denarius serratus of Mamilius Limetanus
Artist not stated in the record · 82 BCE

Edwin Booth As Brutus
Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · modeled 1889

Silver denarius of Aemilius Scaurus
Artist not stated in the record · 58 BCE

Anax junius
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1956

Sard ring stone
Artist not stated in the record · 50–25 BCE

Anax junius
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1951

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Anax junius
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1931

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Anax junius
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 2000

The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Anax junius
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 2008

Mount for Spear-Shaft
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Anax junius
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Mar 1954

Silver denarius of Marcus Aurelius
Artist not stated in the record · 176–177 CE

Anax junius
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1940

Mount for Spear Shaft
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Anax junius
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1979

Belt Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Tornos brutus
Artist not stated in the record
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3602123 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 13:43 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.