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Kopeck - Pyotr I
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1702 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription reading the royal titulature of Peter I, arranged across the full field of the irregular flan in the traditional Russian wire-money format. The legend, reading ЦАРЬ ПЕТРЪ АЛЕѮѢЕВИЧЪ (Tsar Peter Alekseevich), is distributed across three or more lines and is characteristic of the wire kopeck series issued under Peter the Great. The lettering is bold and deeply struck, though partially off-flan due to the irregular planchet, as is typical of this denomination. No border or decorative frame is present, the inscription filling the entire available field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ЦРЬ ПЕТРЪ АЛЕѮѢЕВИЧЪ (Translation: Tsar Peter Alekseevich) |
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Peter I's silver kopeck of 1702 belongs to the old wire money tradition — hand-cut from drawn silver wire, hammered between dies, and irregular in shape by design. These "scales" coins, known in Russian as cheshuyky, had been the backbone of Russian small coinage for centuries. Peter despised them. He found them primitive, easily counterfeited, and an embarrassment relative to the round milled coinage of Western Europe.
He killed the series in 1718, replacing it with machine-struck round copper. The 1702 issue thus falls in the final decade of a monetary form that had survived essentially unchanged since the reign of Ivan the Terrible.