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Kopeck - Peter I
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1702 |
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| Weight | 0.28 g |
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| Obverse description | A mounted horseman, representing the Tsar, depicted in profile to the right astride a galloping horse, wielding a spear or lance in the characteristic Russian wire money tradition. The figure is rendered in the bold, stylized relief typical of early 18th-century Russian hammered coinage. Cyrillic date characters appear beneath the hooves of the horse, reading ҂АѰВ (corresponding to the year 7210 in the Old Russian calendar, equivalent to 1702 CE). The overall design occupies an irregular, lenticular flan produced by cutting silver wire and striking between hand-engraved dies. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a four-line Cyrillic inscription in bold, raised relief, reading ЦРЬ ПЕТРЪ АЛЕѮѢЕВИЧЪ, meaning 'Tsar Peter Alekseevich,' surmounted by a titlo (a diacritical abbreviation mark) above the uppermost line. The lettering is arranged in compact horizontal registers filling the available field of the irregular flan, consistent with the wire money (chekanka) production technique of the period. The script is rendered in the Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic style characteristic of early Petrine-era coinage, with individual characters boldly struck despite the small module of the planchet. |
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| Reverse lettering | ЦРЬ ПЕТРЪ АЛЕѮѢЕВИЧЪ (Translation: Tsar Peter Alekseevich) |
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