Denga - Ivan III

Ivan III's consolidation of Muscovite power during the 1470s and early 1480s coincided with the absorption of Novgorod — forcibly annexed in 1478 — and the formal end of tribute payments to the Golden Horde in 1480. Coinage from this window reflects a principality in rapid, sometimes violent transition toward what would become the Russian state. The denga denomination itself descended from Mongol monetary vocabulary, the word deriving from the Turkic "tenge."

Zaitsev's attribution sequence places this type among the more precisely datable issues of Ivan's long reign, the 1473–1485 bracket distinguishing it from later Moscow production after Tver's annexation in 1485.