| Both depict Liberty figures standing with their fasces and bonnets supported on staffs before key locations in Rome, as if claiming them as their own. |
| The fasces of ancient Roman times were of course the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the great strength of the organized Roman people. |
| It is a representation of the Roman fasces in ebony, and is surmounted by a globe and an eagle in silver. |
| Independence is represented by the laurel-crowned female figure, who holds the consular fasces in one hand and a torch in the other. |
| The number of fasces and lictors varied with the dignity of the magistrate. |
| The fasces of Italian fascism are nicked from the fasces carried by the lictors, symbolising the unity of the Roman people. |
