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Kopeck - Michael I Velikiy Novgorod, НRGI
| Issuer | Novgorod Mint |
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| Year | 1617-1627 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (1 Копейка) (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts an armored equestrian figure — the Tsar or a warrior saint — riding a horse to the right, brandishing a spear or lance diagonally across the field in the characteristic manner of Russian wire money kopecks. The flan is irregularly shaped, as typical of hammer-struck wire coinage of the period, with a slightly convex surface. The design is rendered in low relief with bold, stylized strokes consistent with the artistic conventions of early 17th-century Muscovite mint production. The mint mark НRGI (Нові Город / Velikiy Novgorod) appears in the field, identifying the Novgorod Mint as the place of issue. The overall strike quality and flan shape are characteristic of the reign of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich (1613–1645). |
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| Mintage | ND (1617-1627) НRGI - Velikiy Novgorod |
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Michael I's reign opened with Russia still clawing out of the Time of Troubles, and Novgorod presented a particular complication: Swedish forces had occupied the city since 1611 and only returned it under the Treaty of Stolbovo in 1617. Minting at Novgorod resumed almost immediately after reoccupation, making the earliest issues of this decade inseparable from the politics of that handover. The НRGI designation identifies the mint signature specific to this Novgorod production, distinguishing it from the concurrent Moscow and Pskov wire-money output of the same reign.