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Kopeck - Peter I / Ivan V with the name of Ivan
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1682-1696 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1533-1717) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field of the irregular oval flan, reading the royal titulature in the name of Ivan (Иоанн) Алексеевич. The legend is struck in bold, slightly uneven relief lettering characteristic of hammered wire money of the joint reign of Peter I and Ivan V (1682–1696). The inscription is arranged in horizontal lines across the coin surface, with the text partially truncated at the flan edges due to the nature of the wire-cutting process. No border or decorative elements frame the legend. |
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Peter I and Ivan V were proclaimed co-tsars in 1682 following the Streltsy uprising, with their elder sister Sophia acting as regent. The arrangement was constitutionally awkward enough that the mint produced wire money — these tiny hammered slivers — in both names simultaneously, requiring separate dies for each co-ruler. Ivan V was mentally and physically incapacitated throughout the joint reign, which ended with his death in 1696, after which Peter ruled alone.
Wire kopecks of this period are notoriously difficult to attribute to a specific year, as the flan shape often clips the die, leaving regnal inscriptions incomplete.