(6 coins) Russia: ca. 1533-1717 silver "wire money"

Russian wire money was, as the name implies, hand-hammered on flattened pieces of silver wire.  I confess I lack the knowledge to properly attribute these, but they generally date from around 1533 in the reign of Ivan the Terrible, on up to around 1717 in the reign of Peter the Great.  (I suspect mostly the latter in this case.)

These are crudely struck and small, as is typical.  They feature a horseman on one side and Cyrillic inscriptions on the other.  This lot consists of six pieces (dengas? kopecks?).

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