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Half-denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Letter Д / Bird left
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1412-1423 |
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| Value | 1/2 Denga |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Mint | Moscow |
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Vasily I ruled Moscow during the decades when Tatar overlordship was crumbling but not yet broken — a period when Russian princes minted their own silver partly to assert fiscal independence and partly because disrupted tribute flows made local coinage practically necessary. The half-denga was the smallest denomination in circulation, and these tiny flans were notoriously difficult to strike evenly, which accounts for the characteristically off-center or weakly defined surfaces seen across the type.
The HP II#1621 attribution places this within Huletsky and Petrov's classification of Moscow wire-money predecessors — hand-cut flans hammered with minimal die alignment. No two are quite alike.