 From Dmitry Donskoy's time onwards the coins began to take a more Russian form, with depictions of people, animals and Russian legends, although legends partly in Arabic (the official language of the Horde) persisted on some coins until the time of Ivan III.Dengas were made only in the southern Russian principalities; the state of Novgorod and the City of Pskov made their own slightly larger coins.In 1535 a reform took place, with the northern "novgorodka" being valued at twice the southern denga or "moskovka".