Year of issue: 1710

Ruler: Peter the Great

Denomination: Kopek

Material: Silver

Weight: 0.19 g

Obverse: St. George on horse slaying dragon

Reverse: Russian legend

This coin is a genuine antiquity.

It is a silver 1 Kopek coin minted during the reign of Czar Peter the Great of Russia.

It is often referred to as “wire money” because of the method of manufacture.

The coins were crudely struck on a continuous length of silver wire between coin dies, then cut apart into individual coins.

Peter the Great ruled from AD 1689 to 1725 and was the last Russian Czar to strike coins in the wire money form.

These 300 year old pieces of silver wire money can be difficult to identify, because the very small size of the coins was far smaller than the dies from which they were struck, and no specimens will show more than a fraction of the total design.

You will receive the exact coin that you see in the photos!

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