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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1880968, member: 19463&quot;][ATTACH=full]319077[/ATTACH] </p><p>A related coin I found interesting is a remnant of the Copper Riot of 1662.&nbsp; In 1654, under tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, silver wire coins were replaced with copper ones required to be accepted at equal value.&nbsp; This plunged Russia into an economic crisis resulting in a riot in the streets of Moscow where 1000 people were killed by troops sent to restore order.&nbsp; In 1663 the copper coins were abolished.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand that the issue of copper coins led to counterfeit issues to profit from the great difference between face and metal values.&nbsp; I do not know how to tell the difference and most coins I&#039;ve seen are as bad as my example (which actually has a nice horse head). This is a coin that can be said to have a direct connection to a specific historical event even though I have no idea when in the eight years of the copper coins it was issued and whether it is an official or counterfeit coin.&nbsp; I suspect there are Russian coin specialists that understand this.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is one of my later coins.&nbsp; The appearance of the wire coins fools many people into thinking they are ancients.&nbsp; Not long after this, tsar Peter the Great modernized the coinage and ended the wires.&nbsp; His wire coins, however, are smaller and scrappier even than most.&nbsp; I wish I had a &#039;modern looking Peter I&nbsp; ruble or copper kopeck to show for comparison. This late wire is a kopeck but it still weighs more than 1/100 of the big, beautiful rubles.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319080[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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