Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Kopeck - Vladislav Zigimontovych Moscow mint, Gold
| Issuer | Moscow Mint |
|---|---|
| Year | 1610-1612 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Gold |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Vladislav Vasa — son of the Polish-Lithuanian king Sigismund III — was elected tsar by the Seven Boyars in 1610 following the deposition of Vasily Shuisky, an arrangement that briefly handed Moscow's mint authority to a Polish claimant who never actually set foot in Russia. These gold kopecks were struck during that fractured interregnum, when Kremlin gates were literally held by Polish-Lithuanian garrison troops. The gold issues were not circulating currency in any practical sense; wire-cut gold kopecks of this period functioned as donatives or reward pieces.
Vladislav was never formally crowned, and by 1612 the Zemsky Sobor had organized the militia that expelled the garrison entirely.