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Denga - Andrei Fedorovich / Andrei Alexandrovich
| Issuer | Rostov, Principality of |
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| Year | 1404-1409 |
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| Currency | Denga (-1474) |
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| Obverse description | Crudely struck hammered silver flan of irregular, tear-drop form typical of early Russian wire-money coinage. The obverse bears a poorly preserved design in the field, with faint traces of a stylized figure or heraldic motif characteristic of Rostov princely coinage of the early 15th century. The striking is off-center, with portions of the design extending toward the flan edges. Surface wear and die deterioration obscure fine detail, consistent with the primitive minting technology of the appanage period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this hammered silver denga presents a largely blank or weakly impressed field on the irregular, elongated flan, with faint traces of a partial legend or decorative border visible along one edge. The surface shows characteristic flow lines and die-strike marks from the hand-hammering process. The near-absence of legible detail is consistent with the poorly preserved state of this class of early Rostov coinage, where thin silver flans frequently failed to fully receive the die impression. |
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The Rostov principality by the early fifteenth century was already deeply subordinate to Moscow, and coins struck under its princes functioned less as instruments of independent monetary policy than as markers of residual dynastic identity. Andrei Fedorovich had formally acknowledged Muscovite suzerainty, yet local minting continued — a pattern common across the fragmented northeastern Russian principalities in the decades before absorption became total.
Attribution between Andrei Fedorovich and Andrei Alexandrovich remains contested among Russian medieval numismatists, as die evidence alone cannot always resolve which prince authorized a given emission within this narrow five-year window.