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Half-denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Beast right / Arabic legend imitation
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1390-1410 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1381-1534) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1390-1410) |
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Vasily I ruled Moscow from 1389 to 1425, navigating the complicated reality of nominal Tatar suzerainty while steadily consolidating Muscovite power. The Arabic legend imitation on this piece is not decoration — it reflects the political calculus of a prince who still owed formal tribute acknowledgment to the Golden Horde and whose coins needed to pass in a monetary environment where Tatar-script issues carried transactional legitimacy. The imitation legend is garbled, almost certainly copied by die cutters who were illiterate in Arabic.
The half-denga denomination served the smallest end of daily exchange in a period before Moscow had fully standardized its coinage weights.