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Kopeck - Vladislav Zigimontovych MO, Moscow mint
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1610-1612 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Crowned equestrian effigy of the tsar facing right, depicted as a mounted warrior in full gallop on a horse with flowing legs, wielding a long spear held diagonally across the flan. The figure wears a crown and stylized royal garb rendered in the flat, linear hammered style characteristic of early 17th-century Russian wire money. The mintmark МО appears in the field, identifying the Moscow Mint. The entire design is struck on an irregular oval flan typical of wire kopecks of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | МО |
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This kopeck was struck in Moscow during the Smuta — the Time of Troubles — when the Boyar Council invited Polish Prince Władysław Zygmuntowicz to take the Russian throne after Tsar Vasily Shuisky was deposed and forcibly tonsured. Moscow was under effective Polish-Lithuanian occupation, and the mint continued operating under the pretender's Russianized name as a matter of political legitimacy. The occupation ended when Minin and Pozharsky's volunteer army expelled the Polish garrison in November 1612.
The window for this issue is narrow: roughly 26 months before the interregnum collapsed and the zemsky sobor elected Mikhail Romanov.