Kopeck - Boris Godunov Velikiy Novgorod, В НоIPH

Boris Godunov's path to the throne was legally unprecedented in Russian history — elected Tsar by a zemsky sobor in 1598 after the Rurikid dynasty died out with Feodor I, he ruled under constant suspicion of having engineered the 1591 death of Tsarevich Dmitry at Uglich. Wire money of his reign is among the most catalogued of the late 16th and early 17th century precisely because scholars have used mint marks and legends to reconstruct the political geography of his contested rule. The Novgorod mint designation here places production at one of the oldest and most administratively significant minting centers in Muscovite Russia.