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Kopeck - Peter I
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1716 |
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| Technique | Hammered (wire) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Mintage | 1716 ҂АΨSI |
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Peter I's wire kopecks — struck by the ancient "chekanka" method, in which silver wire was cut into small slugs and hammered between dies — were already technologically obsolete by 1716. Peter had been forcing the transition to Western-style milled coinage since 1700, and these diminutive pieces continued almost by institutional inertia, serving peasant and small-transaction markets that the new round coinage struggled to penetrate. The irregular flan shape is a feature of the method, not damage.
Production of the wire kopeck ceased entirely in 1718 by imperial decree, making the 1716 issue one of the final years of a minting tradition stretching back to Ivan the Terrible.