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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2118066, member: 42773&quot;]It would seem all coins of this type were corrected by RPC to Augustus/Gaius, and I believe you are correct in suggesting Lindgren copied the BMC attribution. I can&#039;t find any examples of the type currently assigned to Caligula.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I had $400 to drop on RPC I at the moment, but look at this GHN lot in which the notes include &quot;Diese Münzen wurden früher dem Caligula zugewiesen.&quot; <b>These coins were previously assigned to Caligula.</b> <a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1251912" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1251912" rel="nofollow">GHN Auction 281 Lot 656.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s safe to assume GHN has a copy of RPC I, and they&#039;re merely reporting the facts. I certainly would like to know how and why they were reassigned. I can only assume the monograms were empirically connected to an earlier magistrate. That, and the busts of Caligula are in general, appreciably different from the ones found on this type.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the mystery of different coins goes, the answer seems obvious. My coin was supposed to be the primary offering, but it got mixed up with the second-chance lot before the coins went to auction - a case of babies switched at birth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I see that Curtis Clay has given us the answer at FORVM. The monograms were indeed discovered to be of a magistrate during Augustus and Gaius&#039; time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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