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Kopeck - Mikhail I о М
| 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 | Obverse of this wire money (cheshуika) depicts a mounted horseman — the traditional equestrian figure of the Tsar — shown in right profile, armed with a spear or lance couched forward, seated on a galloping horse. The design is struck in high relief on a small, irregular flan characteristic of the hammered wire coinage of early Romanov Russia. The mint mark 'о М' (denoting the Moscow Mint) appears in the field. The overall composition is compact and stylized, typical of early 17th-century Russian kopeck production. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Mikhail Romanov's earliest kopecks were struck under conditions of near-total monetary chaos. The Time of Troubles had decimated mint infrastructure and depleted silver stocks, and the new dynasty was issuing wire-cut scale coins — hand-hammered on irregular planchets — through workshops in Moscow, Novgorod, and Pskov simultaneously. The "о М" mint mark places this piece at Moscow during a period when the dynasty was still consolidating its claim and standardizing output across competing minting centers.
Polish-Swedish intervention had only recently subsided, and significant quantities of foreign silver were being melted and restruck to assert Romanov monetary authority. The Deulino Truce of 1618 formally ended the Polish war the same year this emission began.