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Denga - Vasily I Dmitriyevich Cyrillic legend / Shahada
| Issuer | Moscow, Grand principality of |
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| Year | 1403-1412 |
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| Value | 1 Denga (0.005) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears a mirrored imitation of the Shahada, copied from the reverse of Jochid dang coinage and deliberately rendered in mirror image, reflecting the Muscovite practice of imitating Golden Horde monetary types. A longevity knot device is positioned at the base of the field. The entire design is enclosed within a border of raised pellets. The die is noted to have been shared with an Oka region bilateral imitation (HP II, 5215 F), indicating workshop die-sharing practices common among early Moscow mints. |
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Vasily I ruled Moscow at a moment when the principality occupied an awkward political position between the weakening Golden Horde and the expanding Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Arabic shahada on this denga is not decoration — it reflects the continued obligation of Moscow's rulers to acknowledge Tatar suzerainty, with the Islamic formula serving as a legitimizing stamp of Horde authority even as Muscovite power quietly consolidated beneath it. Vasily received his yarlyk from Tokhtamysh, and coins of this type were struck within that tributary framework.