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Kopeck - Pyotr I
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1698 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1533-1717) |
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| Obverse description | Obverse depicts a mounted Tsar in profile facing right, rendered in the traditional Russian wire money (cheshuyка) style characteristic of pre-Petrine and early Petrine coinage. The horseman, representing the Tsar, is shown with a lance or spear raised, seated upon a galloping horse. The design is struck in low relief on an irregularly shaped flan produced from a flattened silver wire blank, resulting in a somewhat compressed and partially visible composition. The Cyrillic abbreviation ЦС (Царь — Tsar) appears in the field. The overall style reflects the archaic hammered die tradition inherited from Muscovite coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | ЦС |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic legend distributed across the entire field of the irregular flan, as was standard for Russian wire kopecks of this period. The inscription reads in abbreviated form the full Muscovite royal titulature of Peter I, identifying him as Tsar and Grand Prince of All Russia. The lettering is boldly struck in the archaic semi-uncial Cyrillic script, arranged in horizontal registers filling the available planchet surface. The flan's irregular oval shape, typical of wire money production, means the legend is partially truncated at the edges. No decorative border or inner circle is present, consistent with the hammered wire coinage tradition. |
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