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Developments in names have often been discussed (see References), but not systematically examined in relation to developments in the phonology of the Old English (OE) language. This paper aims to establish methods of assessing name-spellings äs evidence for OE phonology, and to discuss some of the data that exemplify the value of name-spellings äs evidence of phonological developments.The data are personal names on Anglo-Saxon (AS) coins produced in the reign of Edward the Confessor, AD 1042 -66 (thus in the period associated with late OE). The corpus includes Scandinavian and Continental Germanic (Gmc.) names äs well äs OE names {see 4.2.b. and 5.2.b.). The data are restricted, in that nothing linguistic but name-spelLngs occurs on the coins; thus coins give * The opportunities for puns in a title for this paper are so numerous that I leave the reader to invent bis own.