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 on the throne simultaneously. These wire money kopecks — hammered from hand-cut silver rod, each blank shaped by hammer and die in a single strike — were already an anachronism by the 1670s, a medieval production method persisting into a reign that otherwise saw tentative Westernizing reforms. Peter I finally abolished the wire kopeck in 1718, but Feodor's short reign means his issues are among the scarcer within the series by sheer production-window alone.