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3 Ducats - Peter I Trade Coinage
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1702 |
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| Weight | 10.21 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ПОВЕЛИТЕЛЬ ПЕТРА АЛЕКСIЕВИЧА |
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| Mintage | 1702 - 2 pieces known |
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Peter I struck multi-ducat trade pieces in the early 1700s primarily to facilitate commerce with Western European and Ottoman merchants who distrusted Russian domestic coinage. The ducat denomination was a deliberate concession — Russian merchants trading abroad needed a coin foreign counterparts would accept without argument, and the ducat's weight standard had been trusted across European markets for centuries.
The 1702 date places this piece squarely in the Northern War period, when Peter's treasury was under sustained military pressure financing the campaign against Sweden following the catastrophic Russian defeat at Narva in 1700.