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

During the co-tsardom of Ivan V and Peter I — a constitutional oddity forced upon the Muscovite court by the Streltsy revolt of 1682 — coinage was issued in both names simultaneously. This piece, struck in Peter's name, belongs to the wire money tradition: hand-cut slivers of silver rod hammered between dies, a production method essentially unchanged since the fifteenth century. The irregular flans make full die impressions nearly impossible, and locating a readable name attribution on any given example is the primary collector challenge with this type.