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Denga - Vasily II the Blind
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1425-1462 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Mounted horseman in profile facing right, depicted riding a horse in full gallop; the rider appears to brandish an object. The design is rendered in a crude, schematic style typical of Muscovite wire money production, set within a beaded border on an irregular flan. |
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| Reverse description | Seated or standing figure, likely a ruler or saint, facing forward within the field; additional schematic figures or attendants may flank the central motif. The inscription, rendered in archaic Cyrillic characters, runs around or beneath the main design on the irregular flan, executed in the rough hammered style characteristic of Muscovite dengas of the mid-15th century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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