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Kopeck Second people's militia, Moscow, о М
| Issuer | Second People's Militia (Moscow) |
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| Year | 1612-1613 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (1 Копейка) (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Equestrian figure of the tsar depicted in right profile, shown as a armoured horseman wielding a spear or lance directed downward toward a serpent or fallen figure beneath the horse, executed in the characteristic schematic style of early Russian wire money. The field is uneven due to the hammered flan, and the mint mark 'о М' (denoting the temporary Moscow mint) appears below the horse in Cyrillic characters. The design follows the longstanding Russian kopeck typology derived from the seal of Ivan the Terrible, with the rider rendered in bold, if somewhat crude, relief typical of emergency militia coinage. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription filling the entire field of the irregularly shaped flan, reading the royal titulature of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich in abbreviated form across four or five lines. The lettering is deeply struck in a bold, archaic Cyrillic hand consistent with early 17th-century Russian wire coinage practice. The legend, partly truncated by the small flan, reads: ЦРЬIВЕ ЛIКИКНSЬM IХАЛОθЕД ОРОВИЧВСЕ ЯРУСI, translating as 'Tsar and Grand Prince Mikhail Fedorovich of All Rus'. There is no border or decorative frame, with the legend occupying the full available surface. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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