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MONETARY HISTORY OF KIEV IN THE PRE-MONGOL PERIOD 391nally held in the Coin Cabinet of the Asiatic Museum in St. Petersburg. 37Some hoards have been preserved only in part, e.g., the very large dirhamhoard found in Kiev in 1851. 38 There is no way to determine if the survivingportion is representative of the hoard as a whole. In other cases, thecontents of major hoards found long ago have still not been published infull, e.g., the large 1913 dirham hoard from Kiev 39 and the dirham hoardfrom Bondari in Oster county, Chernihiv province. 40 The Khabrivka hoardallegedly found near Kiev was in private hands for over a half centurybefore being donated to museums in Poland; the preserved coins clearlysuggest that part of the original hoard was lost. 41 Many descriptions ofhoards refer vaguely to "some coins," "many coins," "Byzantine coins,""several ingots," etc. Finally, despite my best efforts, various finds haveprobably been inadvertently omitted or inaccurately reported. Nonetheless,the appendixes given here do summarize most of what we now know aboutthe pertinent finds from Kiev.I was initially inclined to limit my investigation here to only those coinsand ingots found in Kiev itself. This approach, taken in several recent studies,does have merit. Yet I believe such a restricted geographical focuswould be misleading. Islamic, Byzantine, and West European coins wereimported into Rus' from abroad. While we cannot determine with certaintywhether the deposits of such coins found outside of Kiev represent coinsthat were being brought to Kiev or had been taken from the city, it seemsreasonable to connect many of these finds with Kiev. In any event, certainfind-spots outside the city can arguably be associated with the monetarywealth of Kiev, whether as imports or exports. These regions includenearly all of the current Kiev oblast' except the town of Pereiaslav-Khmel'nyts'kyi and adjacent areas, much of the former Kaniv and Cherkasycounties now in Cherkasy oblast', and Oster county in Chernihiv province.In other words, I have excluded from these appendixes those parts ofthe middle Dnieper probably connected with the Old Rus' towns ofLiubech, Chernihiv, and Pereiaslav and all areas beyond them. Myapproach may be overly inclusive, but it does ensure that the monetarywealth of what can be be called greater Kiev is considered.3738394041Appendix A, no. 1.Appendix A, no. 4.Appendix A, no. 16.Appendix A, no. 30.Appendix A, no. 31.