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Denga - Vasiliy III Tver
| Issuer | Grand Principality of Moscow |
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| Year | 1510-1533 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Equestrian figure of the Grand Prince depicted in right profile, mounted on a galloping horse, with the rider brandishing a raised sabre above his head. The flan is characteristic of hand-hammered wire money, resulting in an irregular, elongated planchet. The Cyrillic letter Т (mint mark of the Tver mint) appears beneath the horse in the lower field. The design is executed in the bold, schematic style typical of late medieval Russian wire coinage. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription occupying the entire field, proclaiming the ruler's title. The legend is arranged in several horizontal lines across the irregular flan, reading ГОСПОДАРЬ ВСЕЯ РУСИ (Sovereign of All Rus), a titulature adopted by Vasiliy III to assert his supremacy over the Russian lands. The lettering is characteristic of the angular, compressed Cyrillic script used on early sixteenth-century Muscovite wire coinage, with individual characters sometimes partially off-flan due to the small, irregular planchet. |
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| Mint | Т Tver Mint, Russia |
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