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Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Horseman left / Shahada
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1412-1418 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Vasily I maintained a uniquely ambivalent relationship with the Golden Horde — paying tribute when politically necessary, withholding it when he judged Mongol power sufficiently fractured. The Arabic shahada on the reverse reflects that balancing act: Muscovite princes retained Tatar-script legends on their coins long after effective Horde oversight had collapsed, partly from administrative inertia and partly to preserve legitimacy with populations still oriented toward Sarai.
HP II#1592 B places this among the later die groupings of Vasily's coinage, a reign that saw Moscow consolidate territory even as plague repeatedly struck the principality in the 1410s.