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Kopeck - Dmitry Ivanovich 'False Dmitry I' Moscow
| Issuer | Moscow Mint |
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| Year | 1605-1606 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (1 Копейка) (0.01) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field, arranged in five horizontal lines across the irregular oval flan. The bold, deeply struck letters read the full royal titulature of the pretender Dmitry Ivanovich, proclaiming him Tsar and Grand Duke of all Russia. The inscription is rendered in the archaic Muscovite Cyrillic script characteristic of early 17th-century Russian coinage, with individual letters displaying the angular, monumental style associated with the Moscow Mint of this period. The legend occupies nearly the entire available surface, with no decorative border or inner circle present. |
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False Dmitry I ruled for less than a year before being murdered by boyar conspirators in May 1606 — his body dragged through Moscow's streets and, by some accounts, his ashes fired from a cannon in the direction of Poland, whence he had come. His coins are among the most politically charged objects in Russian numismatics, struck under a man whose true identity remains debated to this day. Whether he was actually the tsarevich Dmitry who survived Uglich or an impostor backed by Polish-Lithuanian interests, the Moscow mint struck in his name without hesitation.