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Kopeck - Mikhail I МО/СКВА
| 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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| Obverse lettering | МО СКВА (Translation: Moscow) |
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| Reverse lettering | ЦАРЬ И ВЕЛИКИЙ КНЯЗЬ МИХАИЛ ФЕДОРОВИЧ ВСЕЯ РУСИ (Translation: Tsar and Grand Prince Mikhail Fedorovich of All Rus) |
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Mikhail Romanov was elected tsar in February 1613 by a zemsky sobor convened to end the catastrophic decade of civil war and foreign occupation known as the Time of Troubles. These wire-cut kopecks were among the first coinage issued under his authority, struck at the Moscow Mint as the new dynasty scrambled to reassert functional central government over a treasury that had been systematically looted by successive pretenders and Polish-Lithuanian occupiers.
The МО/СКВА mintmark split across two lines is diagnostic for Moscow production in this opening period of Romanov rule, distinguishing these pieces from contemporaneous output at Novgorod and Pskov.