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Kopeck - Mikhail I МОС/КВА
| 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 script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | Multiline Cyrillic legend occupying the entire reverse field, containing the full titles of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich, rendered in an abbreviated and ligature-heavy form typical of early 17th-century Russian wire coinage. The inscription reads «ЦАРЬ И ВЕЛИКИЙ КНЯЗЬ МИХАИЛ ФЕДОРОВИЧ ВСЕЯ РУСИ» (Tsar and Grand Prince Mikhail Fedorovich of All Rus). Due to the small and irregular flan, the legend is invariably incomplete and distributed across several cramped lines. Letter forms are archaic and employ standard Muscovite chancellery abbreviations of the period. |
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Mikhail Romanov's accession in 1613 ended the catastrophic Time of Troubles — a decade of famine, civil war, and Polish-Lithuanian occupation during which the Moscow mint itself had been seized and used by foreign-backed pretenders. These early Romanov kopecks, struck in the first years of his reign, represent the new dynasty's attempt to reassert monetary authority over a treasury that was, by most contemporary accounts, nearly empty. The МОС/КВА mint mark distinguishes Moscow production from the concurrent Novgorod and Pskov issues of the same period.