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Kopeck - Peter I
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1703 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Cyrillic legend filling the entire field of this characteristic wire money (chekha) flan, reading 'Царь Петр Алексеевич' (Tsar Peter Alexeyevich) arranged in multiple horizontal lines across the oval irregular planchet. The bold, raised Cyrillic characters are struck in the archaic Muscovite tradition, with letters tightly compressed to fit the small lozenge-shaped flan. The field shows typical hammer-struck surface texture with no border or decorative elements, consistent with late-period Russian wire money coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A mounted horseman, representing the Tsar, depicted in profile galloping to the right and brandishing a spear, rendered in the traditional Russian wire money style. The figure sits astride a horse shown in full stride, with the spear raised prominently. Beneath the hooves of the horse appears the date inscription in Cyrillic alphanumeric notation. The design is boldly struck but characteristically crude in execution, consistent with hand-hammered wire coinage of the early Petrine period. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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