Kopeck - Feodor III Alexeyevich

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.