Kopeck - Feodor III Alexeyevich

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.