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Kopeck - Mikhail I o/M
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1618-1625 |
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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 bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field of the irregular flan, reading the full titular legend of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov. The text is arranged in five or six abbreviated lines across the planchet in the manner standard to Russian wire kopecks of the period, with individual words or syllables broken across lines due to the limited flan size. The lettering is bold and raised, struck in the characteristic archaic Cyrillic script of early seventeenth-century Muscovite coinage. The surface shows the natural irregularity and slight curvature inherent to hammered wire-money flans. |
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Mikhail Romanov's early kopecks present one of the more complex attribution puzzles in Russian numismatics. The "o/M" designation refers to a specific mint mark combination tied to production at Moscow, but separating Moscow issues from those of Novgorod and Pskov during the 1618–1625 window requires close attention to die characteristics — the mints operated concurrently and with overlapping personnel following the disruptions of the Time of Troubles. Mikhail's reign began in 1613 with Russia economically gutted, and wire money of this period circulated under severe silver shortages driven by the protracted conflict with Poland.