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Denga - Vasily II the Blind
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1425-1433 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A pseudo-Arabic inscription filling the reverse field, arranged in multiple horizontal registers imitating the stylized Kufic or Naskh lettering found on contemporary Tatar coinage of the Golden Horde. The characters are non-legible imitations rather than a genuine Arabic text, a common feature on early Muscovite dengas reflecting the political and monetary influence of the Horde. The inscription is struck on an irregular, flat hammered flan with uneven edges characteristic of wire money production. |
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| Mintage | ND (1425-1433) |
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Vasily II inherited the Moscow throne at age ten in 1425, and the coinage of his early reign reflects the fractured political reality that followed — his authority was almost immediately contested by his uncle Yuri of Zvenigorod, triggering a dynastic war that would consume most of the next two decades. The denga issues attributed to this first period, before Yuri's forces seized Moscow in 1433, are products of a mint operating under a court still finding its footing.
HP II#1768С places this piece within Hrishankov's systematic die-link analysis, which remains the primary tool for separating the overlapping Moscow issues of the 1420s from those of the rival Zvenigorodian claimants who briefly controlled the city.