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Kopeck - Mikhail I oM
| Issuer | Moscow 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 | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic titulature legend arranged across the oval flan in the compact, abbreviated style standard for Russian wire kopecks of the seventeenth century. The inscription, reading from the top of the flan downward, gives the full royal title of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich. The lettering is bold and slightly compressed to fit the irregular planchet, with individual characters showing the characteristic angular, archaic Cyrillic forms of the era. The legend fills the entire field without a border, consistent with hammered wire coinage practice. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Mikhail Fyodorovich, the first Romanov tsar, ruled a state still rebuilding from the Time of Troubles — a decade of civil war, famine, and foreign occupation that had nearly destroyed Muscovite coinage infrastructure entirely. The wire-cut kopeck, produced by hand-hammering slivers of silver rod between engraved dies, changed almost nothing in method from the preceding century, which is precisely why attribution to specific reigns depends almost entirely on the abbreviated mint and tsar names punched into the dies. Moscow's "oM" designation distinguishes this issue from simultaneous production at Novgorod and Pskov.