Kopeck - Boris Godunov Velikiy Novgorod, В НОРАI

Boris Godunov's reign was the first in Russian history where a non-Rurikid tsar held power, and his kopecks reflect the anxious legitimacy-building of a usurper working within existing frameworks. The Novgorod mint was one of the most active under his rule, yet attributing specific pieces to it depends almost entirely on the mintmark letters — В НОРА being a contracted form of the Novgorod designation. The GKH2 numbering reflects the revised Grishin-Kleshchinov-Hromiakov corpus, a recataloguing that separated several previously conflated Godunov types.