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Kopeck - Mikhail I М
| Issuer | Moscow Mint |
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| Year | 1613-1617 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (1 Копейка) (0.01) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field of the irregular silver flan, reading in abbreviated early Russian formulaic titulature. The legend, characteristic of wire kopecks struck under Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, is arranged in horizontal lines across the planchet and reads the full royal title: Tsar and Grand Prince Mikhail Fedorovich of All Rus. The lettering is in the archaic semi-uncial Cyrillic style typical of early 17th-century Muscovite coinage, with individual characters boldly raised in relief against the plain field. |
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| Mintage | ND (1613-1617) М |
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Mikhail Romanov's accession in 1613 ended the Time of Troubles — a decade of dynastic collapse, Polish occupation, and near-total monetary chaos. The Moscow Mint had been seized and operated by Polish-Lithuanian forces during the occupation, and restoring legitimate coinage under the new tsar was an immediate priority, both practically and politically. These wire-money kopecks were among the first coins struck in Mikhail's name, their crude flattened shape a direct inheritance of the fish-scale flan technique unchanged since Ivan the Terrible's monetary reform of 1535.