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Here's a most
unusual coin: a
silver half unit
which we call Bird
Back Rider because
the first and only
other specimen to
come to light (CCI
98.1901) had a bird
perched on the back
of the horse. This
example seems to
have a leaf above
the horse instead of
a bird. Moreover,
the obverse features
a boar rather than a
horse. Indeed, we
could (and perhaps
should) have offered
this is an entirely
new type, hitherto
unrecorded and
unpublished. But,
being cautious
coves, we are
presenting it to you
more modestly (and
less sensationally)
as a unique variant
of the Bird Back
Rider. Its findspot
on the
Norfolk/Suffolk
border, near
Thetford, suggests
that it could as
easily be an Ecenian
issue as
Trinovantian. We
simply can't be sure
at this stage.
Either way, it's a
howling rarity.
Chris Rudd's January
List.
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