THE NUMISMATIC COLLECTION OF THE SVITLOVODSK CITY LOCAL HISTORYMUSEUM AS THE SOURCE OF STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF THE MONETARYCIRCULATION OF ZADNEPRSKY PLACES HETMANATE

The purpose of the study is to study the numismatic collection of Svitlovodsk city museum of local history in the context of the general problems of studying monetary circulation within the territory of Zadniprskih places. The article is devoted to money circulation on the territory of Zadniprskikh places of the Hetmanate in the period from the beginning of the ХVІІ to the middle of the XVIII century. The author analyzes the available written sources, historical and local history researches that deal with the problem of monetary circulation, and also describes and analyzes the numismatic materials from the collection of Svitlovodsky city local history museum related to the territory of the Zadniprskih places of the Hetmanate during the specified period. The monetary circulation of the specified territory in the specified chronological framework in the historical and and local history literature not yet covered, but some local descriptions of numismatic sources made by the local history have been made, which, in their place of location and the time of chasing, are relevant to the specified territory and chronological framework, were not considered in the context of the coverage of monetary circulation. This article is based on the use of the numismatic material of the collection of the Svitlovodsk city local history museum and information on the ownership rights to natural lands and economic objects of the territory of the Zadniprskih places of the inhabitants of the Mirgorod and Poltava regiments of the Hetmanate, which also include documents of the former inhabitants of the Chigirin regiment. The insignificant numismatic material available for studying money circulation in the Zadniprsky places, which is chronologically related to the beginning of the 17th – the first half of the XVIII century, and in its location is related to the said territory, is located in the museum collection of Svetlovodsk city local history museum, private gatherings of local lovers antiquity. Numismatic material entered the museum as a result of searches for picking up the material by museum workers, searchers and amateurs of antiquities, locally located settlements and old residential or commercial structures, now flooded by the waters of the Kremenchug reservoir, from the local population that was accidentally discovered by agricultural, construction or other works. All coins of the museum collection are only in a satisfactory condition (with the exception of a few silver coins in good condition). Due to the influence of the environment in which they were located before the discovery, they possess oxides, the vast majority of coins have traces of their long-term use (attrition of the surface). In the future, the study of the money circulation of the territory of the Zadniprskih places of the Hetmanate can be deepened by studying the numismatic collections of other museums and written sources of archival institutions related to the specified territory during the period from the beginning of the XVII to the middle of the XVIII century. Based on the available in the Svitlovodsk city linguistic museum collection of numismatic material, which in its location refers to the territory of the Zadniprsky places of the Hetmanate and has a period of minting until the middle of the XVIII century, the following conclusions can be made: the small quantity of numismatic material represented by the coins of small denominations of its origin are: Crimean Tatar (eastern), Western European – Polish-Lithuanian, Baltic and Russian chekan; 115 Український нумізматичний щорічник. Випуск 3