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Kopeck - Peter I
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1707 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic legend filling the entire field of the irregular flan, reading 'Царь Петр Алексеевич' (Tsar Peter Alekseevich). The inscription is set in bold, blocky Cyrillic letterforms typical of early eighteenth-century Russian wire money dies, arranged in compressed horizontal lines across the coin's surface. The irregular outline of the planchet results in partial truncation of some letters at the edges, as is characteristic of this series. |
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| Reverse lettering | ЦРТЬПЕТРАЛЕѮЕЕВИЧ (Translation: Tsar Peter Alekseevich) |
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Peter I's wire kopecks — produced by the ancient chekanka method, hammering between dies on a flattened silver wire blank — were already an anachronism by 1707. Peter had been pushing Western-style milled coinage since 1700, and these hand-struck pieces continued almost entirely to satisfy peasant-economy demand that the new round coins hadn't yet reached. The Kadashevsky mint in Moscow struck them through 1718, when the type was finally suppressed.