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1 Kopeck - Peter I МДЗ
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1713-1716 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The denomination КОПЕИКА (Kopeck) is inscribed in large Cyrillic characters across the center field in four lines, accompanied by the date expressed in Cyrillic numerals. A circular Cyrillic legend around the periphery reads 'Ruler of all Russia,' forming the full royal titulature in conjunction with the obverse inscription. The reverse typography is characteristic of the early eighteenth-century Russian copper coinage tradition, with bold, slightly irregular letterforms. |
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| Mintage | 1713 МДЗ - ҂АѰГI - 1716 МДЗ - ҂АѰSI - |
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These early copper kopecks were struck at the Moscow Mint (Moskovsky Dvor) during Peter I's sweeping monetary reform, which abolished the tiny hand-struck wire kopeck — the "fish scale" money Russia had used for nearly two centuries — in favor of milled round coinage on Western European standards. The transition was deeply unpopular among peasants who distrusted the new coins, and counterfeiting became an immediate problem serious enough to require repeated government decrees.
The МДЗ mintmark denotes the third Moscow Mint courtyard, one of several facilities pressed into service as Peter struggled to produce sufficient copper coinage for the expanded monetary system. Dies were often reused aggressively across the 1713–1716 window.