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. 14 shown for “Silver denarius of Octavian (Augustus)” — 42 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:42 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 Octavian (Augustus)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 29–27 BCE

Ruins of the Mausoleum of Octavian Augustus, "Le Antichita Romane" II, 1756
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1756

Silver denarius of Octavian
Artist not stated in the record · 29–27 BCE

Young Octavian
Edmonia Lewis, born Greenbush (now Rensselaer), NY 1844-died London, England 1907 · ca. 1873

OCTAVIAN PLOSS
Haid, John Jacob

Flute used by Alton Augustus Adams Sr.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1915

Necklace
Augustus F. Rose, born Hebron, Nova Scotia, Canada 1873- died Providence, RI 1946 · 1917

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1927

Augustus Schell
Unidentified Artist · c. 1872

Daguerreotype of a man taken by Augustus Washington
Augustus Washington, American, 1821 - 1875 · ca. 1850

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1927

Charles Lindbergh
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1927

Charles Lindbergh
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1927

Charles Lindbergh
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1927
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2864779 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 13:42 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.