14 - Counterfeit Wire Denga, circa 1538-1547, Tsar Ivan IV Vasiljevich (Ivan The Terrible), Design of Moscow Mint

DESCRIPTION for a Counterfeit Hammered Wire Denga:

OBVERSE: an image of a horseman with an upraised saber, the horse going on foot.

REVERSE: a tilde line is positioned above the 3-line legend, engraved in old Cyrillic letters, which reads: "КНSЬ / ВЕЛIКI / IВАN" ("Grand Prince Ivan").

Weight: 0.34 gram

Mint: Moscow

During the reign of the Tsar Ivan The Terrible, the unlawful minting of counterfeit coins was punished by death.

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