Kopeck - Feodor III Alexeyevich

Feodor III's reign lasted just six years before his death in 1682 at age twenty, and the political chaos that followed — the Streltsy revolt and the brief joint rule of Ivan V and Peter I under the regency of Sophia — disrupted mint operations considerably. These wire-money kopecks, struck by the traditional hammered method unchanged since the sixteenth century, would themselves become casualties of Petrine reform within two decades, when Peter abolished the hand-struck scale-shaped coinage entirely in favor of Western milled techniques.