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

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.