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Kopeck - Feodor III Alexeyevich
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1676-1682 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic legend distributed across the full surface of the irregular flan, reading the full royal titulature of Tsar Feodor III Alexeyevich. The inscription, struck in the bold, somewhat uneven characters typical of hammered wire coinage, identifies the ruler as Tsar and Grand Prince of All Russia. The lettering fills the field without border, consistent with standard Moscow kopeck production of the period. |
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Feodor III ruled for just six years before dying at twenty, leaving no heir and triggering the succession crisis that briefly put two tsars — Ivan V and the young Peter — on the throne simultaneously. These wire money kopecks, hammered from flattened silver wire rather than struck on milled blanks, were already technologically obsolete by the time of his reign; Peter would abolish the entire wire coinage system in 1718 as part of his monetary reforms. The irregular flan shape and crude die impression are not defects — they are the defining characteristics of the type.