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Kopeck Second people's militia
| Issuer | Provisional Government of the Second People's Militia |
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| Year | 1612-1613 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#323, GKH#342, GKH2#370 |
| Obverse description | Depiction of an armored equestrian warrior, identified as St. George, shown in right profile astride a horse and thrusting a long lance downward toward a serpent or dragon beneath the horse's hooves. The figure wears a helmet and military dress rendered in low relief typical of the wire money (chekha) hammered technique. The design occupies the irregular flan in a bold, schematic style characteristic of early 17th-century Russian kopecks, with the image partially clipped at the flan edges. No legend appears on this face. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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The Second People's Militia — led by Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky — struck these coins during the campaign to expel the Polish-Lithuanian garrison occupying Moscow, operating a field mint at Yaroslavl in 1612 while the legitimate coinage authority had collapsed entirely. The militia effectively functioned as a parallel government, and issuing coin was a deliberate act of fiscal and political organization, not an afterthought. Yaroslavl became the de facto capital of unoccupied Russia for several months.
The Moscow Kremlin fell to the militia in late October 1612. Regular Romanov-era coinage followed within months of Mikhail's election in February 1613.