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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2980841, member: 44132&quot;]Here it is nearly the end of January 2018, and I just received the first coin I purchased since the beginning of the year.&nbsp; Nothing overly special about the coin other than the control mark on the obverse.&nbsp; The seller&#039;s description indicated it was a grape bunch, but I thought it hardly looked like one.&nbsp; So some further investigation revealed, to me at least, that it is the leg of some animal.&nbsp; I think it may be a Horse&#039;s leg.&nbsp; I found one coin with the same control mark on Acsearch, but there may be more examples I just didn&#039;t find.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">So, what is the consenus of my fellow collectors about the control mark?&nbsp; </span><span style="color: #000000">The following screen shot&#039;s, posted by [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER], I plagerized from a 2016 thread regarding the same kind of question: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/m-plaetorius-m-f-cestianus-denarius-new-entry.280396/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/m-plaetorius-m-f-cestianus-denarius-new-entry.280396/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/m-plaetorius-m-f-cestianus-denarius-new-entry.280396/</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">[ATTACH=full]733446[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">[ATTACH=full]733447[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">[ATTACH=full]733451[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"> M. PLAETORIUS M.F. CESTIANUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS PLAETORIA</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">AR Denarius</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">OBVERSE:&nbsp; Head of Bonus Eventus right; horse&#039;s leg behind. Argentarii mark in obverse</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">REVERSE:&nbsp; M. PLAETORI CEST. EX. S. C, winged caduceus</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Rome 57 BC</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">3.87g, 19 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Cr405/5; Syd 807; Plaetoria 5</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">From Wiki</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">The gens Plaetoria was a plebeian family at Rome. A number of Plaetorii appear in history during the first and second centuries BC, but none of this gens ever obtained the consulship. Several Plaetorii issued denarii from the late 70s into the 40s, of which one of the best known alludes to the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March, since one of the Plaetorii was a partisan of Pompeius during the Civil War.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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