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Kopeck - Peter I
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1716 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1533-1717) |
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| Obverse description | Obverse of this wire money (cheshуika) depicts a horseman in the field of the irregularly shaped planchet, struck from a hand-cut silver wire flan typical of Muscovite coinage. The design, rendered in low relief characteristic of the hammered technique, shows a mounted figure — traditionally interpreted as the Tsar on horseback — occupying the central field. The image is partially legible due to the uneven strike and flan shape, with the rider visible amid the textured, striated surface of the planchet. The Cyrillic date inscription ѰSI (denoting the year 7216 in the Byzantine calendar, corresponding to 1716 AD) appears in the field. The overall artistic execution is archaic and cursory, consistent with the final years of wire kopeck production under Peter I. |
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| Obverse lettering | ѰSI (Translation: Ѱ=700, S=6, I=10) |
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Peter I's wire kopecks — the last series struck by the archaic chekanka method, hammering slivers of silver wire between hand-cut dies — were officially discontinued in 1718 in favor of milled coinage. The 1716 issues fall within the final years of this medieval technique surviving into the eighteenth century, a production method Peter himself had already rendered obsolete by reforming the monetary system in 1704.
Cross-referencing GKH and GKH2 numbers on these is genuinely useful: Ilyn and Petrov's successive catalogs frequently split varieties that earlier scholars lumped together, and the wire kopeck series is particularly prone to die attribution disputes given the irregular flans.