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Kopeck - Peter I / Ivan V with the name of Peter
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1682-1696 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (1 Копейка) (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | A mounted warrior — representing the Tsar — depicted on a galloping horse facing right, thrusting a lance or spear forward in the traditional St. George-derived equestrian motif common to Muscovite wire money. Mint initials or letters appear in the field beneath the horse's hooves. The design is struck on an irregularly shaped planchet cut from a silver wire rod, resulting in an oval or elongated flan typical of the chekha (wire kopeck) series. The engraving is shallow and characteristically schematic, consistent with the hammered wire-money technique of the period. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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This wire money kopeck dates to the co-tsardom of Ivan V and Peter I, a constitutional oddity forced by the Miloslavsky faction following the Streltsy uprising of 1682. Ivan, physically frail and partly blind, held the senior title while the young Peter reigned alongside him under the regency of their sister Sophia. Coins of this type bearing Peter's name were struck throughout that regency period and into the years after Sophia's removal in 1689. The fabric — a hammered silver wire slug — was a production method already archaic by Western European standards, unchanged in Russia since the fifteenth century.