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Denga - Ivan IV Tver
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Tver |
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| Year | 1535-1547 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1533-1717) |
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| Reverse description | A three-line Cyrillic inscription occupying the central field of the flan, preceded by a tilde or wave-like ornamental divider above the text. The legend reads КНSЬ ВЕЛIКI IВАН, identifying the issuing authority as Grand Duke Ivan. The lettering is rendered in the semi-uncial Cyrillic script characteristic of mid-16th-century Muscovite and Tverite coinage, with individual characters showing the stylised, compact forms typical of hammered wire money dies. The flat, irregular flan results in partial legend visibility, as is common for this coin type. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ivan IV of Tver — not to be confused with Ivan the Terrible of Moscow — ruled a principality that Moscow had already absorbed in 1485, making these coins a jurisdictional curiosity: struck under a prince who held the title but not genuine sovereignty, within a mint operating on borrowed time. By 1547, when this series ends, the political fiction of Tver's autonomy had long since collapsed into the Muscovite administrative structure.
Denga of this type are notorious for irregular flans — a consequence of the wire-cutting method used in Russian mints of the period, where silver rod was chopped into blanks without pretense of uniformity.