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Denga - Dmitry Konstantinovich of Suzdal
| Issuer | Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1365-1383 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Depicted in the field is a crowned princely figure in profile facing right, wearing a pointed crown or helmet with elaborate decoration, rendered in the crude but characteristic style of 14th-century Russian hammered coinage. The portrait is boldly struck in high relief against the irregular flan, with visible tool marks consistent with hand-hammering technique. The design fills the available field without a formal border or legend, typical of early Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal issues. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multi-line Arabic or pseudo-Arabic inscription occupying the central field of the irregular flan, arranged in two or three horizontal registers divided by a line, in the style commonly adopted by Russian princes of the period in imitation of contemporary Tatar coinage. The lettering is crudely executed and partially legible, reflecting the workshop practices of 14th-century Nizhny Novgorod minting. No border or additional decorative elements are present, and the flan edges are characteristically uneven. |
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Dmitry Konstantinovich held the grand princely title of Vladimir — and with it, nominal seniority among Russian princes — but lost it definitively to Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow in 1363, retaining only Nizhny Novgorod. His coinage dates to the period when Muscovite pressure was relentless and his political survival depended on calculated submission, including giving his daughter Evdokia to Donskoy in marriage in 1366. These denga issues are among the earliest Russian silver coins struck after the Mongol hiatus, a period when coin production in the region had effectively ceased for over a century.