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Kopeck - Pyotr I / Ivan V with the name of Peter
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1682-1696 |
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| Reference(s) | KG#1568, GKH#1121, GKH2#1183 |
| Obverse description | Armored equestrian figure of the Tsar depicted in right-facing profile, mounted on a galloping horse and brandishing a lance or spear in the raised right hand, in the traditional 'kopeck horseman' (ездец) iconographic type inherited from earlier Muscovite coinage. The flan is irregularly shaped, as typical of wire money (chekha) produced by the hammered technique. Mint initials appear beneath the hooves of the horse in the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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During the joint reign of Ivan V and Peter I — a constitutional oddity forced by the Miloslavsky faction following the Streltsy uprising of 1682 — coinage was issued under both names simultaneously. This piece carries Peter's name but was produced during years when real power rested with Regent Sophia, Ivan's full sister and Peter's half-sister, who governed until her overthrow in 1689. The wire-money format itself was already an anachronism by the 1680s, a medieval hammered tradition Peter would later abolish entirely when he reformed the monetary system along Western lines after 1698.