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Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Beast right / Arabic legend
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Vasily I ruled Moscow from 1389 to 1425, and his coinage reflects a principality still operating within the political shadow of the Golden Horde. The Arabic inscriptions on Muscovite dengas of this period were not decorative — they were a deliberate acknowledgment of Tatar suzerainty, often reproducing garbled or phonetically approximate versions of Horde formulae that Moscow's moneyers may not have been able to read.
HP II#1357 places this among the anonymous beast-type dengas, a classification complicated by the fact that die-cutting in Moscow at this period was inconsistent and highly individualistic, making attribution to specific reigns genuinely contested in the literature.