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Kopeck - Pyotr I
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1699 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Obverse of this wire money (chekha) depicts a mounted equestrian figure of the Tsar facing right, shown in profile astride a horse and brandishing a lance or spear downward toward a prostrate figure or serpent beneath the horse's hooves, in the traditional manner of the iconic St. George and the Dragon motif as employed on Muscovite coinage. The design is rendered in the characteristic crude, schematic style of hammered wire money, with the irregular flan truncating parts of the image. The field is uneven due to the hammered production technique, with no border or legend present on this side. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription distributed across the irregular flan in four horizontal rows, reading in the archaic Church Slavonic titulature of the Tsar. The bold, raised Cyrillic characters are characteristic of late 17th-century Muscovite wire kopeck typography, cleanly struck despite the limitations of the hammered technique. The legend occupies virtually the entire field, with no border, and the irregular edge of the planchet causes partial truncation of the outermost letters. The inscription constitutes the abbreviated royal title: 'Tsar and Grand Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich of all Rus.' |
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| Edge | Plain |
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