Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich

Vasily I inherited Moscow's minting operation from Dmitry Donskoy, who had only reestablished local coinage in the 1370s after a century and a half of Mongol economic dominance had suppressed indigenous Russian coin production entirely. These early Moscow dengas circulated under the shadow of Tatar suzerainty — Vasily spent much of this decade negotiating with Tokhtamysh and later Timur's campaigns disrupted the entire regional order, making stable monetary administration a persistent challenge. The irregular weight of surviving specimens from this period reflects a mint still finding its footing.