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 Indeed, we could (and perhaps should) have offered this is an entirely new type, hitherto unrecorded and unpublished.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.                  7.1.08