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Denga - Feodor III Alexeyevich
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1676-1682 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1533-1717) |
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| Obverse description | A mounted equestrian figure depicted in profile to the right, shown in full gallop on a prancing horse, with the rider brandishing a sword raised above his head in the traditional manner of Russian wire money horseman types. The design is struck in low relief on an irregularly shaped flan, characteristic of the chekanka (wire coin) hammered technique. The field is uneven due to the planchet's artisanal preparation, with the motif occupying the majority of the available surface. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field, arranged in several abbreviated lines across the irregular flan surface. The legend identifies the issuing sovereign as Tsar and Grand Prince Feodor Alexeyevich of all Rus, consistent with standard titulature employed on Russian wire money of the late seventeenth century. The inscription is struck in low relief and partially visible depending on die placement and flan coverage, as is typical of this coin type. |
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Feodor III ruled for just six years before dying at twenty, likely from scurvy compounded by other chronic illness, and his coinage reflects a reign too short and a treasury too strained for meaningful monetary reform. The denga itself was already an anachronism by this point — a hand-struck wire coin, chopped from silver rod and hammered between dies, a production method essentially unchanged since the fifteenth century. Russia would not abandon this technique until Peter I's machine-struck coinage of the early 1700s.