Year: AD 1689-1717

Material: Silver

Size: 1.6 x 1.2 cm

Provenance: Fuchin Coin 2023

In AD 1698, Peter the Great returned to Russia after traveling in Western Europe for a year while concealing his identity as tsar. Immediately launched a comprehensive reform of Russia’s wire coining technique, which was deeply influenced by the Mongols, as well as the currency conversion and weight specifications established by Yelena since the fifteenth century.

During the reign of Peter the Great (AD 1689-1725), the standard weight of his wire silver coins was reduced from 0.38 grams to the new standard of 0.28 grams in AD 1698 in order to reduce the trade deficit with European countries. Most of the Peter the Great wire silver coins in circulation today are cast according to the lower latter standard.

Peter the Great’s monetary reforms in AD 1700-1704 replaced the fifteenth-century Elena standard with the decimal system. When Peter the Great returned to his country, he recruited many technical personnel from the Holy Roman Empire (today’s Germany).

Among these technological upstarts, called Germans, was the medalist Gottfried Haupt, who assisted Peter the Great in making Western-style medals and coins in Moscow. With the injection of new technology, the wire-minted coins in Russia, which had a history of more than 300 years, stopped being minted in AD 1717 and went into history.

Russian wire money patterns from AD 1533 to 1717

年代: 公元 1689-1717 年

材料: 銀

尺寸: 1.6 x 1.2 公分

來源: 福君錢幣 2023

公元1698年隱瞞沙皇身分，遊歷西歐一年之久的彼得大帝歸國後。立刻對俄羅斯深受蒙古人影響的金屬絲鑄造硬幣技巧，和十五世紀以降，由葉蓮娜奠定的貨幣換算及重量規格發動全面改革。

彼得大帝統治期間 (公元1689–1725年)，其金屬絲銀幣鑄造標準重量從0.38公克，降至公元1698年的新標準0.28公克，以減少跟歐洲各國的貿易逆差。當今坊間流通的彼得大帝金屬絲銀幣，多是參照較低的後者標準為鑄造。

公元1700-1704彼得大帝的貨幣改革，更以十進位法取代十五世紀葉蓮娜的標準。而彼得大帝歸國時，更從神聖羅馬帝國(今德國)一帶招募許多技術人員。這些稱作日耳曼人的技術新貴中，像勳章職人Gottfried Haupt就在莫斯科協助彼得大帝製作西式勳章和硬幣。

在新技術挹注下，於俄羅斯擁有三百多年歷史的金屬絲鑄造幣，在公元1717年停止鑄造走入歷史。

公元1533-1717年俄羅斯的金屬絲錢幣圖案