💰1533-1584 Russian State Silver Wire kopek Ivan IV Vasilyevich Terrible #230

Description

Ivan IV Vasilievich, nicknamed the Terrible in tonsure - Iona (August 25, 1530, the village of Kolomenskoye [7] near Moscow - March 18 (28), 1584, Moscow) - sovereign, Grand Duke of Moscow and All Russia since 1533, the first crowned king of all Russia
Since Ivan took the throne when he was only 3 years old, until 1538 his mother, Elena Glinskaya, and then the boyars, actually ruled the state. Coins of Ivan the Terrible are usually divided into three parts: pre-reform (1533-1534, are distinguished by a higher weight), before the wedding of Ivan IV to the kingdom (1535-1547) and after 1547. The latter are distinguished by the presence of the inscription "Tsar". The monetary reform of 1535-1538, carried out by the Tsar's mother, brought Russian coins to general standards, and the weight was reduced from 260 to 300 money from the hryvnia (about 204 g). The denomination of a penny (2 dengi) appears, dengi and polushki are minted like the old Moscow ones. The weight norm for coins of a new type: a penny - 0.68 g, denga - 0.34 g, half a piece - 0.17 g. The denominations were not indicated, the weight could differ significantly from the norm, since the blanks were made "by eye", only batches were weighed several dozen pieces. The inscriptions on many coins are partially readable, and for a beginner, assigning them to any type is a difficult task.
There were monetary yards in Moscow (before the reform, they minted "sword" half-money, copper pools, and during the reform, sword-pennies, then half-pieces and new-weight money), in Tver (money and half-pieces of different types), in Novgorod (pre-reform "Novgorodoks", half and a penny after the reform), in Pskov (penny and half).