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Kopeck - Mikhail I МО/СКВА
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1613-1617 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (1 Копейка) (0.01) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely occupied by a multi-line Cyrillic inscription spread across the face of the irregular oval flan, a hallmark feature of Russian wire kopecks of this period. The legend, rendered in early Church Slavonic characters, reads the full honorific title of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, founder of the Romanov dynasty. The lettering is boldly struck in shallow relief, arranged in horizontal lines filling the available field, with no decorative border or frame. The script shows the characteristic angular letterforms of early 17th-century Muscovite epigraphy. Strike quality is typical for hammered wire coinage, with some peripheral letters weakly impressed due to flan limitations. |
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Mikhail Romanov's accession in 1613 ended the Time of Troubles — a decade of famine, civil war, and Polish occupation that had gutted Russian minting capacity entirely. These wire money kopecks were struck at the Moscow mint during the dynasty's earliest, most precarious years, when the new tsar's hold on power was still being consolidated militarily and diplomatically. The MО/СКВА mintmark distinguishes Moscow production from the concurrent Novgorod and Pskov issues of the same reign.