Kopeck - Mikhail I о М

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.