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Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Pair of people / Longevity knots
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1400-1412 |
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| Weight | 0.88 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays an ornamental composition of interlaced longevity knots, a decorative motif commonly found on early Moscow dengas and reflecting Mongol-Tatar artistic influence on Russian coinage of the period. The knotwork design fills much of the irregular flan, rendered in low relief with characteristic roughness of hand-struck medieval coinage. A partial Cyrillic legend surrounds or accompanies the central device, reading ПЕЧАТЬ В... (seal of...), referencing the princely seal. The overall design exhibits the bold, schematic style typical of the Moscow mint under Vasily I. The flan is irregular and slightly cracked at the edges, consistent with the hammered production technique of the era. |
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Vasily I ruled Moscow from 1389 to 1425, navigating the principality through the turbulent aftermath of the Battle of Kulikovo and the ever-present threat of Mongol reassertion under Edigu, who sacked Moscow's surrounding territories in 1408. The denga coinage of his reign is among the most typologically chaotic in Russian numismatic history — Vasily issued dozens of distinct types, many borrowed or adapted from Tatar prototypes, reflecting a mint that had no stable iconographic programme.
The longevity knot motif on this type derives from eastern decorative traditions absorbed through prolonged Golden Horde contact. HP II#1375 C places this among the middle-period issues of his reign.