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Kopeck - Peter I
| Uitgever | Russian Empire |
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| Jaar | 1703 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Cyrillic |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire irregular flan, arranged in compressed horizontal registers typical of wire kopeck coinage of the period. The legend reads 'Царь Петр Алексеевич' (Tsar Peter Alexeyevich), identifying the issuing sovereign. The lettering is deeply struck in the archaic Muscovite script style, with characters partially cut off at the uneven edges of the planchet, as is characteristic of this hammered wire money series. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Peter I's wire kopecks — struck by the ancient "chekanka" method, where silver wire was cut into slugs and hammered between dies — were already anachronistic by 1703. Peter despised them, viewing the medieval technique as an embarrassment for a state he was aggressively modernizing along Western lines. He had been pushing for milled coinage since at least 1696, and the new machine-struck series was already being prepared at Moscow's Kadashevsky mint.
Wire kopecks continued alongside the new issues through 1718, used partly to ease the transition and partly to prevent hoarding of the old coinage. The 1703 pieces thus fall at an odd transitional moment — produced by a tsar actively working to abolish the very technique that made them.