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Kopeck - Mikhail I о М
| Issuer | Moscow Mint |
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| Year | 1618-1625 |
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| Reference(s) | KG#479, GKH#501, GKH2#531 |
| Obverse description | Equestrian effigy of the Tsar depicted as an armored horseman (копейщик) at full gallop to the right, couching a long spear. The mintmark letters «о М» (indicating Moscow Mint) appear in the field beneath the horse's hooves. The design is characteristic of Russian wire money (чешуйки), struck on an irregularly shaped flan with bold, slightly distorted relief typical of the hammered technique. |
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| Obverse lettering | о М |
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Mikhail Fyodorovich ascended as the first Romanov tsar in 1613 following the catastrophic Time of Troubles, a decade of civil war, famine, and foreign occupation that had nearly destroyed Muscovy's minting infrastructure entirely. These wire money kopecks — hand-struck on irregular silver flans cut from drawn rod — were produced under a treasury still rebuilding from that collapse. The Moscow Mint's output during Mikhail's early reign was inconsistent in flan preparation, and examples from this window frequently show incomplete legends due to the small die-to-flan size ratio inherent to the denomination.