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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7936541, member: 110350&quot;]Roman Republic, M. Cato, AR Quinarius [half denarius], 89 BCE. Obv. Head of young Liber (or Bacchus) right, M•CATO (AT ligate) downwards behind; below, control-mark star/ Rev. Victory seated right, holding patera with outstretched right hand and palm branch over left shoulder; in exergue, VICTRIX (TR ligate). Crawford 343/2b, RSC I Porcia 7 (ill.) (type with symbol as control-mark), BMCRR 662, Sydenham 597(c), Sear RCV I 248 (ill.), RBW Collection 1298. 15 mm., 1.58 g., 6 h. <i>Ex. Numismatique Louis Brousseau Auction 1, Aug. 24, 2019, Lot 255.*</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/m-cato-quinarius-jpg-image-jpg.1300767/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>*Issued at end of Social War. The moneyer’s specific identity and relationship to Cato the Younger (Uticensis) are unknown; he was not that Cato’s father, who died no later than 91 BCE. There is a possibility that he can be identified with M. Porcius the wine-merchant. See Crawford p. 352. The reverse figure is presumably Victoria Virgo, whose shrine was built by Cato Censorius (id., citing Livy).</p><p><br /></p><p>The control-mark of a star is not among the 67 control-marks listed in Crawford Table XXV at pp. 350-351.&nbsp; There is one other example of this control-mark listed in acsearch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, another coin from a member of the Cato family.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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