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Kopeck - Peter I / Ivan V with the name of Peter
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1682-1696 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | Four lines of Cyrillic legend filling the entire field of the irregular flan, reading the full royal titulature of Tsar Peter Alexeyevich. The inscription is struck in the characteristic bold, compressed Cyrillic lettering typical of late 17th-century Russian wire money. The text is distributed across the flan without a border, and partial letters appear at the edges due to the irregular shape of the planchet. The reverse carries no imagery, the royal title itself serving as the sole design element. |
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Between 1682 and 1696, Russia was nominally ruled by two tsars simultaneously — the brothers Ivan V and Peter I, co-sovereigns installed after the Streltsy revolt of 1682 forced a political compromise that elevated both rather than either alone. This kopeck belongs to that strange interregnum, struck under the wire-money technique inherited from medieval Muscovy: blanks hammered from silver rod, sheared, and struck with hand-cut dies, producing the characteristic irregular fish-scale shape. The GKH references distinguish subvarieties by die pairing, and collectors working this series must contend with the near-impossibility of finding two examples struck from the same die alignment.