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Kopeck - Mikhail I о М
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1636-1645 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (1 Копейка) (0.01) |
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| Reverse description | Reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire oval field, arranged in horizontal lines across the flan in the conventional format of Muscovite wire kopecks of the period. The legend identifies the issuing sovereign as Tsar and Grand Prince Mikhail Fyodorovich of all Russia. The lettering is bold and deeply struck in places, though partially off-flan at the edges due to the irregular shape of the planchet, as is characteristic of hammered wire coinage of this era. |
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| Mintage | ND (1636-1645) оМ - Rarity 4 |
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Mikhail Fyodorovich, first of the Romanovs, inherited a monetary system left in ruins by the Time of Troubles. These wire-cut kopecks — hammered from drawn silver wire, snipped, and struck between hand-cut dies — were the workhorse of a recovering economy still rebuilding trade networks shattered by a decade of civil war, famine, and foreign occupation. The "о М" mint mark denotes Moscow.
Die alignment and flan shape vary wildly across the type, a predictable consequence of the production method rather than any quality lapse specific to this reign.