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Denga - Ivan III Novgorod, 'Iban'
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1480 |
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| In circulation to | 1535 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Novgorod Mint |
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Ivan III absorbed Novgorod into the Muscovite state in 1478 following a prolonged campaign of political pressure and military threat that ended the city's centuries-old republican independence. Coinage struck in Novgorod's name immediately afterward served a deliberate administrative function — maintaining local monetary familiarity while embedding Moscow's authority into everyday exchange. The spelling variant "Iban" rather than the standard "Ivan" is a known peculiarity of certain Novgorodian dies from this transitional period, likely reflecting local engravers rather than Muscovite ones still cutting the punches.