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

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.