Srebrennik - Sviatopolk Vladimirovich

Sviatopolk's srebrenniki were struck during one of the most violent succession crises in Kyivan Rus history — he is believed to have ordered the murders of his brothers Boris, Gleb, and Sviatoslav almost immediately after Vladimir the Great's death in 1015, earning him the epithet "the Accursed" in the Russian Primary Chronicle. His coinage imitates the silver issues of his father Vladimir but debased, the billon composition reflecting either depleted treasury reserves or the instability of a reign contested from the start by Yaroslav of Novgorod. Sviatopolk was driven out twice before his final defeat at the Alta River in 1019.