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Denga - Anonymous Cyrillic legend / Two-faced Janus

Issuer Grand Principality of Moscow
Year 1415-1418
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Technique Hammered
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Obverse description Obverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription arranged within the central field, reading КНѦ ЗЬ ВЕЛHИ Н (Grand Prince), enclosed within a circular border. The lettering is rendered in a characteristic early Muscovite hammered style, with angular, archaic Cyrillic characters typical of early 15th-century Russian coinage. The legend fills the flan in a stacked arrangement, with no figurative motif present on this side. The irregular flan, a hallmark of wire-money-era production, results in partially visible letters at the periphery.
Obverse script Cyrillic
Obverse lettering КНѦ ЗЬ ВЕЛHИ Н
(Translation: Grand Prince.)
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