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Russian Kopeck - Which Tzar?

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 Posted 08/27/2025  06:29 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add NumiFan to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi

I have a lot of silver kopecks and finally have some time to investigate them.

Russian-Kopeck---Which-Tzar?
Russian-Kopeck---Which-Tzar?

This one has pretty legible legend however I can't figure out the ruler.
What I've found so far is how to read russian legends, so it seems that the top and bottom parts should be as below
Russian-Kopeck---Which-Tzar?
= Tsar and Grand Duke

Russian-Kopeck---Which-Tzar?
= of All Rus

The middle section should contain the ruler's name so I've wrote down all options:
Russian-Kopeck---Which-Tzar?

I thought that it would be much easier to find out the correct ruler but to no avail. Can I ask for a help regarding this?
Maybe some kind of other sources/websites that are worth to get a look?

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08/27/2025 06:33 am
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 Posted 08/27/2025  10:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oriole to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@January1May is good at reading these inscriptions.
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 Posted 08/27/2025  3:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Mikhail Fedorovich; you can see "Mikhail" fully spelled out in the 3rd line (the leftmost part of the M is cut off) and the middle part of the patronymic in the 4th line.

On a lot of these 17th century types, the letter that should look like B is so misshapen it looks more like a rectangle. This makes figuring out the legends tricky sometimes...

I believe that's a Moscow mintmark on the other side (...it looks a lot like the Mexico one), but aside from that there's a ton of variants (I think several hundred) and I don't feel ready at the moment to consult the catalog to tell which exact variant you have.
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08/27/2025 3:17 pm
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 Posted 08/28/2025  09:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NumiFan to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The variant is not as much important. I rather wanted to figure out the correct ruler.
Many thanks for the verification!
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