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Kopeck - Vasiliy IV Velikiy Novgorod, Н РSI
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1608 |
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| Weight | 0.68 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Cyrillic inscription arranged in four to five horizontal registers across the irregular flan, reading the full Tsarist titulature of Vasiliy IV Shuisky. The lettering is struck in relief in the compact, angular script typical of early 17th-century Russian wire money. The inscription fills the entire available field of the planchet, with individual characters closely spaced in the hammered tradition. There is no decorative border or ornamentation; the legend constitutes the sole design element. |
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Vasiliy IV Shuisky ruled during the Time of Troubles, one of the most catastrophic dynastic collapses in Russian history — civil war, famine, Polish-Lithuanian intervention, and a series of pretenders claiming the Muscovite throne simultaneously. His coinage continued the wire money tradition unchanged in form, but the Novgorod mint's output during his reign was politically charged: Novgorod would fall to Swedish forces in 1611, just three years after this piece was struck, effectively removing it from Muscovite control entirely.