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Kopeck - Pyotr I / Ivan V With the name of Ivan
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1682-1696 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (1 Копейка) (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Depiction of a mounted horseman in the traditional Russian wire money style, shown in right profile astride a horse and brandishing a spear or lance held diagonally across the field. The figure, representing the Tsar, is rendered in schematic relief characteristic of late 17th-century hammered coinage. The irregular flan, typical of wire kopecks cut from silver rod, results in a roughly oval planchet with uneven edges. The design is boldly struck despite the crude surface texture inherent to the hammered technique. The mint mark 'оМ' (Moscow Mint) appears in the field. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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The dual-tsar arrangement this coin acknowledges was a constitutional oddity forced by the Miloslavsky and Naryshkin family factions following Tsar Fyodor III's death in 1682. Ivan V, mentally and physically incapacitated, was elevated as senior co-tsar alongside the ten-year-old Peter primarily to prevent Peter's Naryshkin relatives from consolidating sole power. The regency effectively belonged to their elder sister Sophia. Wire money of this period naming Ivan is considerably scarcer than issues naming Peter alone, reflecting both the shorter effective acknowledgment of the dual title on small denomination coinage and the chaotic administrative conditions of the regency years.