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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24634991, member: 26430&quot;]This issue came with an impressive variety of different obverse control symbols -- it appears there are <i>several hundred obverse control symbols</i> for this one issue! (See links toward the end.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There are lots of animal ones, but also daggers, axes, mythical creatures, body parts like <a href="http://numismatics.org/sitnam/id/af19ba59" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/sitnam/id/af19ba59" rel="nofollow">a big disembodied ear (!)</a>, hand, etc. All those little symbols can be one of the most fun things about collecting Republican coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure what your symbol is. Looks a bit like two confronted owls standing. There&#039;s a single owl for that type, but it looks different.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as value, I don&#039;t think they usually affect value much except (rarely) when there&#039;s something especially interesting or important about <i>that one</i>. But still neat. It&#039;s not unusual to discover that a certain symbol has never been documented before.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first stop (even before Crawford&#039;s vols.) would be the online Roman Republican Die Project by ANS &amp; Richard Schaefer. It&#039;s very much still in progress, but looks like they&#039;ve gotten to the point of classifying each die for the series (in public collections or in auction catalog photos assembled in <a href="http://numismatics.org/authority/schaefer_richard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/authority/schaefer_richard" rel="nofollow">the Schaefer Notebooks</a> -- a great resource both for die study and provenance research).</p><p><br /></p><p>You can see many examples here on SITNAM (from American Numismatic Society), illustrating the huge range of symbols:</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/sitnam/results?q=bursio" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/sitnam/results?q=bursio" rel="nofollow"><b>http://numismatics.org/sitnam/results?q=bursio</b></a> (261 specimens)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also from ANS, &gt;1250 total specimens across &quot;type a&quot; &amp; &quot;c&quot; (the SITNAM ones plus museum coins) in Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO). They have all the dies numbered at the bottom -- HUNDREDS of obverse dies -- so it may take a while to find your match... Not sure if yours is Crawford type 352.1a or 1c, but here are the pages with the &quot;data&quot; (i.e., photos of all the known specimens including their obverse control symbols):</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-352.1a" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-352.1a" rel="nofollow"><b>http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-352.1a</b></a> (719 specimens)</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-352.1c" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-352.1c" rel="nofollow"><b>http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-352.1c</b></a>&nbsp; (535 specimens)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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