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Kopeck - Mikhail I M
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1618-1625 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Depiction of a mounted Tsar as a warrior-horseman, shown galloping to the right while brandishing a spear, in the traditional Russian wire money style. The equestrian figure is rendered in a schematic, flat relief characteristic of early 17th-century hammered coinage. The Cyrillic mint mark 'М' (for Moscow) appears in the field beneath the hooves of the horse, identifying the issuing mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mikhail Romanov's early kopecks were struck during one of the most chaotic monetary periods in Russian history. The Time of Troubles had just ended, the treasury was depleted, and the new dynasty was scrambling to establish fiscal credibility. These wire money pieces — hand-cut from drawn silver rod and struck between crude dies — were produced not at a single centralized facility but across multiple mints operating simultaneously, including Moscow, Novgorod, and Pskov, each leaving subtle differences in style that specialists use to attribute individual pieces today.