Denga

The Pskov Republic maintained a fiercely independent mint throughout the fifteenth century, striking its own coinage despite persistent pressure from Novgorod and, later, the expanding Muscovite state. Ivan III finally absorbed Pskov into Moscow in 1510, ending both the republic and its coinage in a single administrative stroke. Dengas from this series were struck by hammer on irregular flans cut from drawn wire — the resulting planchet shape is almost never round, which is not a flaw but simply how all Russian wire money of this period was produced.