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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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| Reverse description | Six-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field, reading the full royal titulature of Tsar Peter Alexeyevich. The legend is abbreviated and compressed to fit the irregular flan, as is characteristic of wire-money coinage of the period. The text identifies the issuer as Tsar and Grand Prince Peter Alexeyevich of All Rus, rendered in the traditional orthography of late 17th-century Muscovite chancery script. |
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| Mintage | ND (1682-1696) оМ |
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The joint reign of Ivan V and Peter I was an arrangement born of a succession crisis: when Tsar Feodor III died without an heir in 1682, rival court factions backed different candidates, and the compromise — unprecedented in Russian dynastic history — placed both half-brothers on a specially constructed double throne. Ivan, the elder, held nominal precedence; Peter, ten years old and politically impotent, held the future. Wire-cut kopecks of this period circulated under both names, though the weight standard had already been eroding for decades. Peter abolished this coinage type entirely in 1718 as part of his monetary reform, replacing hand-struck wire money with Western-style milled coinage.