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Pulo - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Leopard left / Leopard right
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1413-1423 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A stylized leopard passant depicted in left profile occupies the central field of this crudely struck hammered copper pulo. The feline figure is rendered in a primitive yet distinctive manner characteristic of early Muscovite coinage, with the tail raised and curled. A partial Cyrillic circular legend surrounds the device, of which only fragments remain legible on the flan. |
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| Obverse lettering | ...АТЬ... (Translation: Seal.) |
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Vasily I spent much of his reign navigating the wreckage left by Timur's 1395 campaign, which had devastated the Golden Horde's commercial infrastructure and disrupted the tribute relationships that defined Muscovite political life. The pulo, a fractional copper piece, filled the lowest register of a money economy that was simultaneously absorbing Tatar monetary practices and reasserting Rus' coinage traditions.
HP II#1575 is one of several pulo types attributable to this reign by die study rather than any inscription — Vasily I's copper issues rarely carry legible authority marks, and attribution depends heavily on stylistic comparison within Hanaberg and Petrov's corpus.