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Kopeck - Mikhail I o/M
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1618-1625 |
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| Weight | 0.49 g |
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| Obverse description | Equestrian figure of the Tsar depicted in right profile, mounted on a horse and wielding a lance or spear directed downward, rendered in the crude but vigorous style characteristic of early Romanov wire money. The flan is irregular in shape, a natural consequence of the hand-hammered wire-cutting technique, and the design is partially struck with typical off-center displacement. Cyrillic mint initials appear in the field, identifying the Moscow Mint. The relief is low and the surfaces show the granular texture associated with hammered silver coinage of this period. |
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| 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. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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