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Kopeck - Feodor III Alexeyevich
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1676-1682 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A mounted rider, representing the Tsar, depicted on a galloping horse moving to the right and brandishing a spear in the characteristic schematic style of Russian wire money. The figure is rendered in a highly stylized, abbreviated manner typical of chekhi (scale coins) of the period. Cyrillic mint marks appear beneath the horse's hooves, indicating the issuing mint. The design occupies the irregular flan produced by the wire-cutting process, resulting in a partially visible composition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Feodor III ruled for just six years before dying at twenty, likely from scurvy complicated by other chronic illness. His reign saw the abolition of the mestnichestvo system — the entrenched table of ranks governing Muscovite noble precedence — a reform of genuine administrative consequence. These wire money kopecks, hand-struck from drawn silver wire by hammering between dies, continued a production method essentially unchanged since Ivan the Terrible. The technique left each piece irregular in shape and weight, making counterfeiting paradoxically difficult.