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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 | Tsar Peter I depicted as an equestrian figure, riding a galloping horse to the right and wielding a spear in the traditional manner of the St. George type. The rider's lance is directed downward. Cyrillic date numerals appear beneath the horse's hooves, rendered in the Slavonic numeral system denoting the year 1702. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Peter I's wire kopecks — struck by the ancient chekanka method, pressing a blob of silver wire between hand-cut dies — were already anachronistic by 1702. Peter knew it. He was simultaneously building a Western-style monetary system that would formally replace these within a decade, making the wire kopecks of his reign transitional relics produced by a tsar actively working to abolish them. The 1702 issue falls just before his 1704 monetary reform introduced the round, machine-struck kopeck.