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Denga type 2, D B
| Issuer | Novgorod Republic |
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| Year | 1420-1478 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Homage scene depicting two standing or seated figures facing one another, each extending the left arm upward toward the other in a gesture of submission or greeting. The left-hand figure is conventionally interpreted as a duke or princely authority receiving homage. The figures are rendered in a schematic, archaic style characteristic of Novgorodian wire money dies. The field is plain and the flan is irregular, as typical of hammered issues of this series. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Novgorod's denga coinage of this period reflects the republic's unusual position as a commercially autonomous city-state trading directly with the Hanseatic League while nominally acknowledging Muscovite pressure on its borders. The type 2 designation within the DB die-pairing classification comes from the systematic work of Russian medievalists cataloging the considerable die variety within Novgorod's output — a mint that operated without the centralized controls typical of contemporary European coining authorities.
Moscow finally extinguished Novgorodian independence in 1478, the terminal date of this issue's production.