On 30 April this year we featured a Tincomarus Alton gold stater as our Coin of the Week, saying "our coin is the first to be publicly offered for sale - the first to be seen in a sale catalogue...only four others recorded, including two in the British Museum." It's an odd phenomenon, but sometimes when we make a song and dance about an excessively rare type, another one turns up. We call it the 'woodwork effect', because when we publicise a rare coin another one occasionally 'comes out of the woodwork', especially when a finder sees how much that coin is worth. Well, here we are with another Tincomarus Alton stater. We've been lucky again. This second one is even better than our first. The flan is rounder, the obverse is sharper overall and, although the letters TINC are weakly struck, the king's name is fully displayed on this example. Chris Rudd July list.                                2.7.07