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| 裏面の説明 | Reverse bears a Cyrillic legend in archaic script reading 'Царь Петр Алексеевич' (Tsar Peter Alekseyevich), inscribed across the field in two or three lines within the irregular wire-cut flan. The lettering is boldly engraved in the traditional Muscovite style, with characteristic letterforms of the late 17th to early 18th century. A horizontal stroke or titlo mark is visible above the abbreviated text, consistent with standard Orthodox Slavonic scribal conventions used on Russian coinage of this period. The flat, unadorned field and plain edge are typical of hammered wire kopecks produced at the Moscow Mint. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | Царь Петр Алексеевич |
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Peter I's wire kopecks — the ancient chekanka technique of flattening a silver wire slug between dies — were already an anachronism by 1703, but Peter kept striking them while simultaneously building the decimal coinage system that would replace them entirely by 1718. These tiny coins served a calculated political purpose during the transition: abandoning them too quickly would have disrupted the peasant economy, which had used wire money for centuries and distrusted round milled coinage as foreign novelty.
The 1703 issue falls squarely within Peter's early reform period, the same years he was founding St. Petersburg and reorganizing the mint infrastructure along Western European lines.