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1 Kopeck - Nicholas II
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | A single-headed eagle displayed in the central field, its wings spread and detailed in high relief, bearing a plain shield on its breast. The entire legend surrounding the eagle is struck in retrograde Cyrillic, reading МОНЕТА РОССИЙСКАЯ МЕДНАЯ ОДНА КОПЕЙКА (Copper Russian coin One Kopeck), running along the inner rim within a beaded border. Decorative rosette ornaments punctuate the legend at left and right. The denomination ОДНА КОПѢЙКА appears in the lower arc, also in retrograde, consistent with the experimental nature of this pattern piece. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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The 1898 kopeck series was produced under Finance Minister Sergei Witte's sweeping monetary reform program, which had just stabilized the ruble on the gold standard the previous year. Copper subsidiary coinage was overhauled simultaneously, with the St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg mints retooling to meet demand from a rapidly industrializing economy where small-denomination coins circulated brutally hard.
The KM#Pn153 reference designation flags this as a pattern classification in some catalogs — worth verifying against Bitkin's attribution before assuming a standard circulation strike.