Kopeck - Mikhail I К-Ч МОС/КВА

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.