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Kopeck - Peter I / Ivan V with the name of Peter
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1682-1696 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field of the irregular planchet, as is typical of Russian wire kopecks of this period. The legend, reading in abbreviated form across several lines, records the full royal title referencing Tsar Peter Alexeyevich of all Russia. The lettering is rendered in a bold, archaic Cyrillic hand characteristic of late 17th-century Muscovite coin production, with individual characters tightly spaced and partially cut off at the irregular flan edges. The flat, textured silver surface shows the characteristic granularity of hammered wire coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The joint reign of Ivan V and Peter I was a constitutional fiction from the start — Ivan was mentally incapacitated, and effective power rotated through the regency of Sophia Alekseyevna until her removal in 1689. Wire-cut kopecks of this period, struck by the traditional chekan method unchanged since the 16th century, were already an anachronism by the time Peter consolidated sole rule in 1696 and began dismantling the entire monetary system that produced them.