Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Kopeck - Peter I / Ivan V with the name of Ivan
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
|---|---|
| Year | 1682-1696 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | A mounted horseman depicted as the Tsar, shown in right-facing profile on a galloping horse, holding a lance or spear in the raised hand — a traditional representation derived from the St. George motif used on Muscovite wire money. Cyrillic letters appear beneath the horse's hooves, serving as a mint or die identifier. The design is characteristic of the crude, elongated flan typical of hammered wire kopecks of this period. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Russia's copper-to-silver wire coinage of this period was produced by a hammer-striking method — the so-called "chekanka" technique — using hand-cut slivers of wire flattened between dies, which explains the characteristic irregular flan shapes endemic to the type. These were struck jointly in the names of the co-tsars Peter and Ivan V following the Streltsy revolt of 1682, which placed the two half-brothers on the throne simultaneously under the regency of their sister Sophia. Ivan V was largely ceremonial; cognitive and physical infirmities meant real authority never rested with him.
Pieces bearing Ivan's name alone, rather than Peter's, are the scarcer subset of the joint coinage.