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Kopeck - Peter I
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1702 |
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| Technique | Hammered (wire) |
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| Obverse description | Obverse of this wire money (cheshuyка) depicts a mounted Tsar in profile facing right, shown as an armored equestrian figure on horseback wielding a lance or spear, executed in the crude but distinctive relief typical of late Muscovite hammered coinage. The design occupies the full irregular flan, with the horse and rider rendered in a highly stylized, archaic manner consistent with the long-standing Russian wire kopeck tradition. The flan is characteristically oval and lenticular, produced by cutting a silver wire blank and striking between hand-cut dies. Design elements are partially visible due to the limited size of the flan relative to the die. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a two-line Cyrillic inscription filling the field of the irregular oval flan, reading 'Царь Петр Алексеевич' (Tsar Peter Alexeyevich), the titulature of Peter I rendered in the archaic semi-uncial Cyrillic script characteristic of early eighteenth-century Russian wire coinage. The bold, deeply struck lettering is distributed across the flan in the customary abbreviated format dictated by the small flan size, with individual letters showing the slightly irregular form inherent to hand-engraved dies. The field is otherwise plain, with no border or decorative elements, and the jagged, uneven rim reflects the hand-cut wire blank technique. A small pellet or dot is visible in the lower field. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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