Issue 145 (2020)

A. Boiko-Haharin, PhD in History

National Museum of the History of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

ORCID: 0000-0003-4610-3665

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2020.145.2

THE MONEY COUNTERFEITERS IN KYIV REGION IN THE 19^th – EARLY 20^th CENTURY

The article deals with the processes of counterfeiting and the attempts to sell the forgery coins and banknotes during the 19^th – early 20^th centuries in the Kyiv region, which were analyzed basing on files of historical archival funds and materials of the press of that time. The peculiarities of counterfeiters activity in the specified region were determined, the main centers and areas of counterfeiters manufacturing were established, as well as the places and conditions of their sale. Most of the sources cited in this article are published for the first time. There were also periods of increase in counterfeiters activity in Kyiv and in the provinces. In addition to the data over the circulating money counterfeits (coins, assignations and credit notes), we also provide the data on the revealed facts of counterfeiting of treasury bills, tax stamps and money surrogates. The conclusions obtained in the article allow us to imagine the extent of the problem of counterfeiting money in the Kyiv region and to make the topography of the main areas of counterfeiting detection. The research is highly relevant and has high scientific significance not only for the history of money circulation and numismatics, but also for the history of criminalistics and jurisprudence.

Key words: Russian empire, Kyiv province, money counterfeiting, criminalistics, archival sources, pre-Soviet newspapers.

Received by the editorial board: 11.03.2020

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