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Kopeck - Mikhail I o/M
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1618-1625 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1533-1717) |
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| Obverse description | Equestrian figure of the Tsar depicted as a mounted lancer, galloping to the right, with a spear couched in the right hand — the traditional 'horseman' (ездец) type of early Russian wire money. The rider is rendered in a stylized, archaic manner characteristic of hammered kopecks of the Romanov period. Mint letters 'o M' (denoting the Moscow Mint) appear beneath the hooves of the horse in the lower field. The flan is of irregular, planchet-cut shape typical of wire money production. |
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| Obverse lettering | о М |
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Mikhail Romanov's earliest kopecks were struck under conditions of profound institutional chaos — the mint infrastructure had been badly disrupted during the Time of Troubles, and the overstrike on older wire money (the "o/M" designation indicating a Muscovite undertype) reflects the new dynasty's pragmatic approach to restoring a functional currency from whatever silver stock remained. These small hammered pieces circulated alongside the debris of several competing monetary authorities, some foreign, that had briefly operated on Russian soil during the Polish occupation of Moscow.