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Kopeck - Mikhail I o/M
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1618-1625 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse lettering | о М |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field, arranged in four to five horizontal lines across the irregular flan. The legend reads the full titulature of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, identifying him as Tsar and Grand Prince of All Rus. The Cyrillic letterforms are boldly struck in the archaic style consistent with early seventeenth-century Muscovite coinage, with some letters partially obscured at the flan edges due to the limitations of the hammered wire-money production method. No decorative border or frame surrounds the inscription. |
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Mikhail Romanov's early kopecks were struck under conditions of extreme institutional fragility — the dynasty was barely established, the treasury depleted by the Time of Troubles, and minting operations still recovering from decades of disruption. The "o/M" counterstamp denotes pieces struck at the Moscow mint during this transitional period, distinguishing them from contemporaneous output at Pskov and Novgorod.
Wire money of this type was produced by cutting a silver rod into small slugs and striking each between hand-cut dies — a medieval technique Russia retained long after Western mints had abandoned it for rolled blanks.