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Denga
| Issuer | Pskov Republic |
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| Year | 1424-1510 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylized frontal effigy of Dovmont (Daumantas), the legendary prince-saint of Pskov, depicted in a schematic, archaic manner characteristic of medieval Russian wire money dies. The figure is rendered with a broad, flat face and outstretched arms or attributes at the sides, struck on an irregular flan with the design occupying the central field. The crude but expressive engraving reflects the provincial hammered coinage tradition of the Pskov Republic. |
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| Reverse description | A stylized leopard passant rendered in the primitive, schematic engraving style typical of Pskovian medieval coinage, occupying the central field of the irregular flan. Surrounding or accompanying the beast is a Cyrillic legend reading ДЕНГА ПСКОВСКАЯ, identifying the denomination and issuing city-republic. The strike is characteristic of hand-hammered production, resulting in uneven distribution of the design across the planchet. |
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Pskov maintained a stubbornly independent coinage tradition long after neighboring Novgorod had been absorbed into the Muscovite orbit. The republic operated under constant military pressure — from the Livonian Order to the west, Lithuania to the south, and an increasingly aggressive Moscow — yet continued striking its own silver until Ivan III finally ended Pskovian autonomy in 1510, at which point the city's mint ceased operations entirely.
The Grishin-Presumptive reference HP II#3017ВА places this piece within a well-documented but often difficult-to-attribute series, where die linkage studies remain the primary tool for sequencing issues across the republic's final decades.