Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Cyrillic legend / Falconer

Vasily I spent much of his reign navigating the aftermath of the Tatar invasions and the shifting loyalties of rival principalities. Moscow's coinage in this period was deeply inconsistent — multiple die cutters worked simultaneously with no centralized standard, which is why the Denga series from his reign shows such radical variation in style, legend quality, and fabric. The HP II#1510 attribution places this squarely in a recognized group, but even within that group, individual dies differ markedly.

The falconer type draws on imagery circulating across the Mongol-influenced steppe world, a deliberate visual language for a principality still paying tribute to the Golden Horde.