Catalog
Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Cyrillic legend / Beast left
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1415-1418 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | В+E КNSЬ ВАСIЛ НН (Translation: Grand Prince Vasily.) |
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| Mintage | ND (1415-1418) - Beast with clawed paws and a branching tail. Legend ACEI behind it. Pellets. - ND (1415-1418) - Beast`s tail ends in a lily. Circles in front and behind the beast, pellets around. - |
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Vasily I spent much of his reign navigating the competing pressures of the Golden Horde's declining authority and the rising threat of Lithuania under Vytautas — his own father-in-law. The denga coinage of this period reflects that instability: Moscow's minting was irregular, dies were cut by hand with no standardization, and the same issuer could produce wildly different fabric across a short window of years.
HP II#1600 is a wire-money precursor type, struck on a roughly cut silver flan by hammer. Varieties within this grouping are distinguished primarily by legend arrangement and animal posture, making die attribution the only reliable tool for precise placement within the 1415–1418 window.