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1/4 Kopeck - Alexander III
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1881-1893 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Mintage | 1881 С.П.Б. - - 200,000 1882 С.П.Б. - - 60,000 1883 С.П.Б. - - 240,000 1884 С.П.Б. - - 140,000 1885 С.П.Б. - - 480,000 1886 С.П.Б. - - 1,060,000 1887 С.П.Б. - - 1,000,000 1888 С.П.Б. - - 200,000 1889 С.П.Б. - - 181,000 1890 С.П.Б. - Mintage is shared with 1889 - 1891 С.П.Б. - - 400,000 1892 С.П.Б. - - 918,000 1893 С.П.Б. - - 740,000 |
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Alexander III despised the reforms of his assassinated father and reversed many of them within months of taking the throne in 1881. The quarter kopeck itself was a pre-reform survival — a denomination so small it had almost no practical purchasing power even by the standards of Russian peasant wages, yet the mint continued striking it throughout his reign as a matter of fiscal conservatism rather than economic utility.
Dies for this type frequently show clashing and minor positional variants across the thirteen-year run, a consequence of high-volume production on aging equipment at the St. Petersburg mint.