Pulo - Vasiliy III Tver, Griffin

Tver retained its own mint decades after Moscow absorbed the principality in 1485, a pragmatic concession that kept local copper circulating through markets that had no use for distant authority. These pulo struck under Vasiliy III name the Tver mint explicitly — an unusual survival of regional minting identity inside a rapidly centralizing Muscovite state. The griffin type is catalogued across multiple reference systems precisely because collectors and scholars struggled for generations to attribute these small coppers to specific reigns, the Gaidukov classification finally bringing some order to the chaos.