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.
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.