Kopeck - Feodor III Alexeyevich

Feodor III's reign lasted just six years before his death at twenty, and his kopecks were struck by the wire-money method unchanged in Russia since the sixteenth century — thin slivers of silver rod hammered between dies, producing irregular fish-scale flans that bear only a partial impression almost by design. Peter the Great would abolish this entire coinage system in 1718, which makes every wire kopeck a product of a minting tradition already centuries old when Feodor inherited the throne from his father Alexis.