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Kopeck - Boris Godunov OM
| Issuer | Moscow Mint |
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| Year | 1598-1605 |
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| Technique | Hammered (wire) |
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| Obverse description | A crowned equestrian figure, identified as the Tsar, is depicted in right profile astride a galloping horse, holding a long spear pointed downward in the traditional kopeck type derived from Ivan the Terrible's monetary reform. The design is struck on an irregular flan typical of wire money (chekha), with the image often partially visible depending on flan shape and die alignment. The mint mark 'О М' (Moscow Mint) appears in the field. The style is characteristic of late 16th- to early 17th-century Russian wire coinage, with bold if somewhat crude hammered relief. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription arranged in horizontal bands across the irregular flan, giving the full royal titulature of Tsar Boris Feodorovich Godunov. The legend reads 'ЦАРЬ И ВЕЛИКИЙ КНЯЗЬ БОРИС ФЕДОРОВИЧ ВСЕЯ РУСИ' (Tsar and Grand Duke Boris Feodorovich of All Rus), typical of the formulaic reverse inscriptions used on Russian wire kopecks of the period. The text is distributed across the flan in abbreviated form, as dictated by the small coin surface, and is struck in Cyrillic characters of the late medieval Russian style. Due to the irregular shape of the wire flan, the legend is frequently incomplete on any given specimen. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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