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Half-denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Cyrillic legend / Cyrillic legend
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1420-1423 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered field bearing a multi-line Cyrillic inscription arranged across the flan in several horizontal registers. The legend, reading 'Grand Prince Vasily', is executed in archaic Russian script typical of early Moscow coinage, with individual letters of varying size and depth of strike. The flan is irregularly shaped with a slightly uneven surface, characteristic of hand-struck wire-money technique of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | В+E Л КNZЬ ВАСIЛ НН (Translation: Grand Prince Vasily) |
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Vasily I spent much of his reign navigating tribute obligations to the Golden Horde while simultaneously asserting Muscovite coinage as a distinct political instrument. The half-denga — polushka — was among the smallest denominations struck, and surviving examples from this period are frequently clipped or test-cut, reflecting the distrust of silver purity that plagued Rus coinage before any standardized assay system existed. HP II#1521 is a recognized type within a series notorious for die-cutting inconsistencies, making clean strikes scarce.