Gorodets on the Volga was already in steep decline by the 1380s — the city would be effectively abandoned within a decade, its population dispersed following repeated Tatar raids. Coinage from this principality is among the most archaeologically fragile of all medieval Russian issues, typically recovered in fragmentary condition from riverside excavation sites rather than hoards.
Gaidukov's classification of this type took decades to stabilize; early Soviet-era attributions frequently misassigned Gorodets pulos to neighboring Nizhny Novgorod.
Gorodets on the Volga was already in steep decline by the 1380s — the city would be effectively abandoned within a decade, its population dispersed following repeated Tatar raids. Coinage from this principality is among the most archaeologically fragile of all medieval Russian issues, typically recovered in fragmentary condition from riverside excavation sites rather than hoards.
Gaidukov's classification of this type took decades to stabilize; early Soviet-era attributions frequently misassigned Gorodets pulos to neighboring Nizhny Novgorod.