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Denga - Ivan IV M
| Issuer | Moscow Mint |
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| Year | 1535-1547 |
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| Value | 1 Denga (1 Деньга) (0.005) |
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| Obverse description | A mounted horseman galloping to the right, brandishing a raised sabre above his head in a dynamic martial pose typical of Muscovite wire money coinage. The rider is depicted in profile on a galloping horse with legs extended. The mint mark 'М' (for Moscow) appears in the field beneath the horse's hooves, serving as the mint identifier. The design is struck in the characteristic crude but vigorous style of 16th-century Russian hammered coinage on an irregular flan. |
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| Obverse lettering | М |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a three-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field of the irregular flan, reading КНЯЗЬ ВЕЛИКИЙ ИВАН (Grand Prince Ivan), the titular legend identifying the issuing ruler Ivan IV. The lettering is rendered in the early Muscovite script style characteristic of mid-16th-century wire money, with bold, slightly archaic letterforms. The inscription is arranged in horizontal lines across the coin's surface without a border, consistent with the hammered wire-money tradition of the period. |
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