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Kopeck - Peter I
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1702 |
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| Reference(s) | KG#1864, GKH#1451, GKH2#1521 |
| Obverse description | Central device depicts a mounted horseman — the traditional equestrian figure of the Tsar — shown in right profile, riding a horse and wielding a lance or spear downward toward a prostrate serpent or fallen foe beneath the horse's hooves, in the style of St. George and the Dragon iconography long established on Russian wire money. The design is struck in low relief on an irregularly shaped flan characteristic of hand-cut wire coinage, with the image partially confined by the flan's narrow dimensions. The field is rough and uneven, consistent with hammered production. No border or legend appears on this face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a three-line Cyrillic inscription in bold, blocky Church Slavonic letterforms occupying the full field of the irregular flan, reading the titles of the issuing ruler. The legend is arranged in horizontal lines across the center of the flan and reads the abbreviated titulature of Tsar Peter Alexeyevich. The characters are deeply struck and well-defined relative to the small flan size, with dot separators punctuating portions of the legend. The surface is flat and plain, with no border or decorative elements, typical of Russian wire kopecks of the early eighteenth century. The date in Cyrillic numeral notation appears on the obverse rather than this face. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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