Kopeck - Peter I / Ivan V with the name of Ivan

The dual-reign kopecks of 1682–1696 reflect one of the stranger constitutional arrangements in Russian history: the simultaneous co-tsarship of the teenage Peter and his mentally incapacitated half-brother Ivan V, managed in practice by their sister Sophia as regent. Wire money of this period was struck in the old medieval scale-blank tradition — hammered from drawn silver wire, snipped, and struck — a production method already obsolete across most of Europe. Pieces naming Ivan specifically are somewhat less frequently encountered than those naming Peter, likely a function of mint output weighting as Peter's political dominance grew through the 1690s.