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Kopeck - Vasiliy IV Swedish occupation of Novgorod, РIН
| Issuer | Novgorod Mint (Swedish occupation) |
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| Year | 1611-1615 |
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| Technique | Hammered (wire) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sweden seized Novgorod in July 1611 under Jacob De la Gardie, and the occupying administration almost immediately continued striking wire money kopecks at the local mint — partly to pay troops, partly to maintain the fiction of legitimate governance. The decision to keep minting under Vasiliy IV's name, despite his deposition and death in 1612, was deliberate: Swedish authorities calculated that circulating coinage bearing a familiar tsar's name would be more readily accepted by the Russian population than anything overtly foreign.
The РIН mint mark distinguishes these pieces from Moscow and Pskov output of the same nominal reign.