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Denneng Danish imitation of Kopeck Mikhail Fyodorovich
| Issuer | Kingdom of Denmark (Glückstadt Mint) |
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| Year | 1619 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A crowned equestrian figure, identified as the Tsar, depicted in right profile astride a galloping horse, brandishing a long lance or spear diagonally across the field in the characteristic manner of Russian wire kopecks. The rider wears a crown and is rendered in a bold, stylised relief typical of hammered coinage. Surrounding Cyrillic legends, partially visible, fill the field around the horseman. The flan is irregular in shape, consistent with wire-money production technique. |
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| Reverse description | Four lines of Cyrillic inscriptions filling the entire field of the irregular flan, rendered in the archaic Muscovite script style typical of early 17th-century Russian wire money. The lettering, partially legible, references the title and name of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich and includes the word ГОСУДАРЬ (Gosudár, sovereign) along with additional titulature. The inscription is set without a surrounding border, occupying the full surface of the planchet. The die-work reproduces, with varying fidelity, the prototype legends of authentic Moscow kopecks of the period. |
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Denmark's decision to mint imitation Russian kopecks at Glückstadt in 1619 was a calculated commercial move: Christian IV needed a medium of exchange acceptable to Russian merchants in the Baltic trade, and the kopeck — wire-struck, fish-scale shaped, with no fixed denominations legible to foreign eyes — was easily reproduced. Glückstadt itself had only been founded the previous year, making this among the earliest issues from that mint.
The imitations circulated alongside genuine Muscovite issues without obvious detection, which was largely the point. Mikhail Fyodorovich, first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, had been on the throne just six years when these were struck.