Half-denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Cyrillic legend / Warrior left

Vasily I ruled the Grand Principality of Moscow under the shadow of the Golden Horde, nominally a vassal obliged to secure his own yarlik — the Mongol patent of authority — through diplomacy and payment. These fractional silver pieces circulated in a monetary system still deeply shaped by Tatar administrative structures, with denominations derived from the Arabic dirham tradition filtered through the Russian denga. At roughly 0.39g, the half-denga sat at the practical floor of silver coinage, used for the smallest daily transactions in a principality whose minting was still technically subject to Horde oversight.