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Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Beast left / Arabic legend
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Currency | Rouble (1381-1534) |
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| Reverse lettering | ن السلطاتو قتاهش خان خلد (Translation: Sultan Toktamysh Khan, may he be immortalized...) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Vasily I ruled Moscow from 1389 to 1425, a period when the principality remained a tributary state of the Golden Horde. The Arabic legends on these dengas were not decorative borrowing — they were a political necessity, mimicking Horde coinage closely enough to satisfy Tatar overlords who controlled the right to mint. The beast type belongs to a broad family of zoomorphic designs circulating across Rus minting centers in this period, each principality developing enough local variation to remain distinguishable to specialists despite the surface similarities.