Catalog
Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1403-1412 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Cyrillic inscription occupying the central field, rendered in the characteristic early medieval Russian wire-money style typical of Muscovite denga coinage of the early fifteenth century. The legend is arranged within the flan in multiple lines, with letters of archaic form. The striking is irregular, as is typical of hammered wire coinage of this period, resulting in partial legend visibility across the planchet. |
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| Mint | Moscow |
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Vasily I inherited Moscow's minting apparatus from his father Dmitry Donskoy, who had introduced coinage to the principality only in the 1380s — barely a generation before these dengas were struck. The Moscow mint at this period was producing coins under the shadow of Tatar suzerainty, and many issues of Vasily I carry Tatar tamgas on the reverse as a political concession to the Golden Horde, whose formal overlordship Moscow still nominally acknowledged.
HP II#1320А places this among the better-documented varieties of Vasily's long reign, though attribution of early Moscow dengas remains contentious given the absence of mint marks and the inconsistency of die cutting across the period.