1 Penny Anonymous Long cross, two hands

Dublin's moneyers of this period were copying English penny designs with deliberate looseness — the long cross types derive from Æthelred II and Cnut's issues, but local dies show increasingly schematic lettering and abstracted portraiture that drifted further from their prototypes with each generation of copying. The "two hands" variety is among the more distinctive local adaptations, with no direct English equivalent.

Dublin at this time was a Scandinavian trading port operating under Norse kingship while remaining commercially entangled with England. The coinage functioned primarily in mercantile exchange rather than royal taxation, which explains both its relatively low weight standard and the inconsistency of surviving specimens.