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Kopeck - Vasiliy IV Moscow
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1606-1610 |
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| Technique | Hammered (wire) |
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| Reverse lettering | ЦАРЬ И ВЕЛИКИЙ КНЯЗЬ ВАСИЛИЙ ИВАНОВИЧ ВСЕЯ РУСИ (Translation: The Tsar and great Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich of the whole Russia) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Vasiliy Shuysky seized the throne in May 1606 immediately after the mob killing of the first False Dmitry, and his four-year reign was one of continuous crisis — peasant uprisings under Bolotnikov, a second False Dmitry operating a rival court at Tushino, and eventual Polish intervention. He was deposed in July 1610 and delivered in person to the Polish king Sigismund III, dying in captivity near Gostynin in 1612. Wire money of this reign is distinguished from adjacent issues primarily by the name form ВАСИЛЕЙ on the obverse die.