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Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Cyrillic legend / Warrior right
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1412-1420 |
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| In circulation to | 1420 |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | A warrior striding to the right, depicted in a schematic style typical of early Muscovite coinage. The figure holds a sword in one hand and an axe in the other, rendered in a bold, primitive engraving characteristic of hammered wire-money technique. The warrior is surrounded by a beaded circular border. Various die varieties are documented, distinguished by the presence of differentiating marks — including pellets, Cyrillic letters, and other symbols — positioned in front of or behind the warrior figure. |
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Vasily I spent much of his reign navigating the collapse of Mongol authority following Tamerlane's defeat of Tokhtamysh at the Terek River in 1395, which effectively ended regular tribute obligations to the Golden Horde for a period. Moscow's minting activity in this window reflects that political breathing room — coinage became an assertion of independent princely authority rather than a subsidiary function of Horde-sanctioned rule.
The HP II#1561 attribution places this within a well-documented but extensively subdivided series; Huletsky and Petrunin's classification distinguishes dozens of die marriages across Vasily I's output, and misattributions within the warrior-type subgroup remain common in the trade.