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Kopeck - Alexey Mikhailovich
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1645-1650 |
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| Shape | Irregular |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | ЦАРЬ И ВЕЛИКИЙ КНЯЗЬ АЛЕКСЕЙ МИХАЙЛОВИЧ ВСЕЯ РУСИ |
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Alexey Mikhailovich inherited the throne at sixteen following his father Mikhail's death in 1645, and these wire money kopecks — struck by the hammered fish-scale method unchanged since Ivan the Terrible's monetary reform of 1535 — were among his first issued coinage. The technique involved cutting irregular slivers from a drawn silver wire and striking them between hand-cut dies, producing the characteristic lozenge shapes that circulated throughout Muscovy. Russia would not abandon this medieval minting method until Peter I's coinage reform of 1698.