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Kopeck - Peter I
| Uitgever | Russian Empire |
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| Jaar | 1704 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | On this wire money kopeck, the obverse bears a Cyrillic inscription arranged in two lines across the irregularly shaped flan, reading the date in Church Slavonic numeral notation АΨД (1704), struck below the horseman's feet as is customary for this series. The lettering is boldly rendered in the hammered style characteristic of early Petrine coinage, with individual characters occupying the full height of the available field. The flan edges are ragged and uneven, consistent with the wire-cutting technique used to prepare blanks for this denomination. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Cyrillic |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Peter I introduced the silver kopeck in 1704 as part of his sweeping monetary reform — the same overhaul that created the ruble as a decimalized unit and effectively dismantled the old wire-money system that had persisted since the medieval period. The tiny wire-cut "fish scale" kopecks these replaced had been produced by hand-hammering silver wire for centuries, and replacing them with machine-struck coinage was as much a political statement about modernization as it was a practical monetary decision.
Production was short-lived. By 1718, copper had taken over the kopeck denomination entirely, making the silver issue a transitional artifact of only fourteen years.