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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 26303906, member: 87809&quot;]I spent many days trying to attribute this coin, which only has written on its flip: &quot;Small Medieval Coin, Serofili, Med. Coins&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>At first I thought Serofili was the denomination - nope, it is the name of a dealer at a place called Mediterranen Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I started to try to understand the script on the reverse - Latin? Greek? to make a long story short, it is Cyrillic.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the coin:</p><p>Ivan IV Vasiljevitch / Ivan the Terrible Grand Prince of Moscow and All Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.</p><p>His reign saw the continued use and development of this unique coinage called Wire Money, small, thin silver coins minted during his reign as Tsar from 1547 to 1584. Their shape is usually irregular and oval, often long and narrow, the typical irregular “fish-scale” look, due to the minting technique. The Russian name for wire money is чешуйка, literally “scale”.</p><p>The name kopek derives from the spear (kop&#039;ye) that the rider wields.</p><p><br /></p><p>AR Kopek, Wire Money</p><p>Russian Federation, Pskov, 1547 – 1584, during Ivan’s reign as Tsar</p><p>12 mm, 0.650 g</p><p>Kleshchinov &amp; Grishin 93; GKH 26; GKH2 31;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Ivan the Terrible wielding a spear on a galloping horse to right. The letters under the feet of Ivan, C/MH in Cyrillic script translate to S/MN (the mint master’s mark).</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev.:</p><p>Cyrillic inscription:</p><p>ЦРЬÏВЕ</p><p>ЛИКИIКН</p><p>ѦЗЬIВАНЪ</p><p>ОСЕѦРОV</p><p>СИI</p><p>translates to “Tsar and Grand Prince Ivan of all Rus”.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1679369[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1679370[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share your Wire Money or anything you like to share.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I think I&#039;ll be going to relax.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> This one was really a hard one![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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