Kopeck - Pyotr I / Ivan V With the name of Ivan

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.