Emisiuni monetare rusești din patrimoniul muzeului național de istorie a Moldovei (a doua jumătate a secolului al XVIII-Lea)
Russian coins from the collections of the National Museum of History of Moldova (2nd half of the 18th century)

Summary/Abstract: Turning to the issue of monetary issues of Catherine II (1762-1796) and Paul I (1796-1801), we continue the study of Russian coins from the collections of the NMHM. In the NMHM collection, coins from the time of Catherine II are found both as part of the hoards (Gârbova hoard), and in as single finds: gold ones – lobanchik (1), ruble (1); silver ones – ruble (10), polupoltinnik, 15 kopecks (4), grivennik (4); bronze ones – 1 para / 3 dengas (10), 2 para / 3 kopecks (28); and copper ones – 5 kopecks (98), 2 kopecks (12), 1 kopeck, denga, polushka. Also in the NMHM collections there are coins of Paul I, both as part of the hoards (Grozești hoard), and as single finds: silver coins – ruble (4) and copper ones – 2 kopecks (15), 1 kopeck (10), 1 denga (5). These finds confirm that Russian coins were widely used in the Prut-Dniester area even before the Establishment for the Management of the Bessarabian Oblast of February 29, 1828, when Bessarabia was included in the political and economic system of the Russian Empire and Russian money officially became a means of circulation throughout the territory Bessarabia. This fact allows us to make sure once again that the distribution of Russian money was determined not only by economic and financial relations established after the annexation of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire in 1812. Their use in the 18th century was due to the absence of a national monetary system, as well as the Russian-Austrian-Turkish wars, the consequences of which had a clear impact on the economic sphere and on changing the paradigm of monetary circulation in the Principality of Moldavia. These coins must be put into scientific use, as they complete the picture of money circulation in this area.

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