ABSTRACT
Several late Anglo-Saxon coin types are remarkably uniform when it comes to the visual appearance of the coins, while some of them oer much more diversity. e Last Small Cross type of Æthelred II is an example of the latter kind. Coins of this type, the last of Æthelred’s types, are especially common in Scandinavian nds, and this probably was why Michael Dolley used them as the material for his 1958 study of engraving styles. He cited Sir Frank Stenton as the motivation for his research: ‘More work is needed on the conditions under which the dies of this period were produced, and in particular on the extent to which the business of die-cutting was centralized in London’.1
