Kopeck - Boris Godunov MO

Boris Godunov's accession in 1598 was itself contested — he had effectively ruled as regent during the reign of Feodor I, and his election by the Zemsky Sobor was challenged by boyar factions who considered him a usurper of low Tatar stock. The kopecks struck under his name were wire money, hand-cut from drawn silver rod and struck between crude dies, a production method unchanged since Ivan the Terrible's monetary reform of 1535.

The MO mint mark indicates Moscow. Godunov died in April 1605 with the False Dmitry already advancing on the capital, and his son Feodor II was murdered within weeks — ending the dynasty after a single generation.