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Denga - Vasiliy III
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1520-1533 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | A mounted horseman depicted in profile galloping to the right, brandishing a raised sabre in his right hand. The horse is shown in full stride, with a severed human head rendered beneath the horse's body in the field below. The design is executed in the crude but vigorous hammered style characteristic of late medieval Muscovite wire money coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1520-1533) |
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Vasiliy III completed the absorption of the last semi-independent Russian principalities during his reign — Pskov in 1510, Ryazan in 1521 — and the coinage of this period reflects a monetary system still consolidating around Moscow. The denga denomination had been the backbone of Muscovite small change since the late 14th century, struck by hammering between hand-cut dies, a technique that produced the characteristic irregular flans collectors encounter today.
Zaitsev's classification separates these issues by die-link groupings rather than date, since no year appears on the coin itself.