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Kopeck - Peter I
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1702 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | ЦРЬИВЕ ЛИКIИКНѦ ЗЬПЕТРЪА ЛЕѮIЕВИЧЬ ВСЕѦРѠ CCIИ (Translation: Tsar and Grand Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich of all Rus) |
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Peter I's wire kopecks — struck by the ancient "fish scale" method of hammering slugs cut from drawn wire — were already anachronistic by 1702. Peter knew it. He had just returned from the Grand Embassy to Western Europe and was actively dismantling the Muscovite monetary system in favor of a modern decimal coinage. These small silvers continued to be struck only because the peasant economy could not yet absorb the transition; they were phased out entirely by 1718 when the reformed copper kopeck took over routine small commerce.