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Kopeck - Mikhail I К-Ч МОС/КВА
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1636-1645 |
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| Weight | 0.45 g |
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| Obverse lettering | К Ч МОС КВА |
| Reverse description | Multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the field of the irregular flan, presenting the full titulature of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich. The legend is arranged in several horizontal lines across the coin's surface, reading the titles of the sovereign in abbreviated form as was customary on Russian wire kopecks of the period. The lettering is struck in low relief, with individual characters showing the characteristic bold style of early Romanov die engraving. The irregular flan edges, a natural consequence of the wire money production method, partially truncate the outermost portions of the inscription. |
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Mikhail Fyodorovich, first of the Romanov dynasty, inherited a monetary system still recovering from the Time of Troubles — a decade of civil war, famine, and Polish occupation that had devastated minting capacity and flooded the market with debased imitations. These wire-cut chekany were produced by hand-hammering silver wire between dies, a technique essentially unchanged since Ivan the Terrible's monetary reform of 1535. The Moscow mint designation К-Ч МОС/КВА places this piece specifically within the Kremlin workshops operating under tight state control during the reign's middle years.