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Kopeck - Vasiliy IV
| Issuer | Moscow Mint |
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| Year | 1606-1610 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (1 Копейка) (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned equestrian figure of the Tsar depicted in right profile, mounted on a galloping horse, with right arm raised and holding a long spear (kopye), from which the coin denomination derives its name. The design is struck in low relief on an irregular flan typical of wire money (chekhi) production, with the image characteristically off-center and partially visible due to the small planchet size. The style is archaic and schematic, consistent with early 17th-century Russian hammered coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Vasily Shuisky seized the throne in May 1606 within days of the assassination of the first False Dmitry, whose own coinage had briefly flooded Moscow. His four-year reign was defined almost entirely by crisis — the Bolotnikov uprising, the emergence of a second False Dmitry, and near-constant military pressure that left the government with little administrative stability. Coins issued under his name were struck in the wire-money tradition, hand-cut from drawn silver rod, with output irregular enough that distinguishing his issues from those of his pretender rivals often requires die study rather than visual inspection alone.