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MONETARY HISTORY OF KIEV IN THE PRE-MONGOL PERIOD 411APPENDIX A: Finds of Islamic Coinsfrom Kiev and Surrounding Areas1. Kiev. 1706. A hoard of some 2,380 silver coins was found during the constructionof a new Pechers'k fortress. Hetman Mazepa sent the coins in a sack to St.Petersburg, where they were registered, as Assyrian coins, in the records of theMalorossiiskii prikaz. After 1715, no more information about these coins isrecorded. The coins were later transfered to the Academy of Sciences, wherethey reportedly served as the basis for the Numismatic Cabinet of the AsiaticMuseum. The hoard seems to have been dispersed in the Asiatic Museum, andno detailed record of its contents has been preserved. P. S. Savel'ev believedthat these coins were Islamic dirhams.Karger, Kiev, pp. 116-17; Markov, Topografiia, pp. 13-14, no. 73; Tolochko,Drevnii Kiev, p. 164, no. 1.2. Kiev. 1787. In May 1787, students from the Kiev Ecclesiastical Academy founda jug full of "ancient" silver coins and treasure on the slopes of Mykhailovahora along the Khreshchatyk. The hoard was dispersed completely and nodetailed record of its contents exists. Korzukhina believed the coins could havebeen Islamic and Byzantine.Korzukhina, Klady, p. 90, no. 29.3. Kiev. 1845. A hoard of around 200 Oriental copper coins from various dynastieswas found in a clay pot near the St. Cyril Monastery. The oldest coin was an'Abbasid fals struck in Bukhara in 765/66 under al-Mansur while the mostrecent was a Chaghatayid fals struck in Bukhara in 1253/54 under MengiiKhan. Since this hoard was deposited some 250 years after dirham imports intoEastern Europe ceased, it most likely forms part of the monetary history ofKiev in the early Mongol era, i.e., it was probably brought to Kiev by a Mongolwho had gathered coins in Central Asia.Thomas S. Noonan, "Medieval Islamic Copper Coins from European Russiaand Surrounding Regions: The Use of the Fals in Early Islamic Trade withEastern Europe," Journal of the American Oriental Society 94 (1974):448-49; Karger, Kiev, p. 118; Markov, Topografiia, p. 13, no. 72; Tolochko,Drevnii Kiev, p. 164, no. 2.4. Kiev. 1851. A coin-treasure hoard in a clay pot was found on a hill near thePustynno-Mykils'kyi Monastery, not far from the Dnieper, on May 30, whiledigging for a new fortress was underway. The monetary part of the hoardapparently consisted of perhaps 2,000-3,000 dirhams, most of which weredispersed and disappeared without a trace. However, small parts of the hoardobtained by various museums and private collectors were identified, thus providingsome idea of the original composition of the hoard. Unfortunately, thosedirhams that were preserved have not been identified in detail.A. Dirhams Obtained by P. S. Savel'ev (60 or 61)VAbbasid (9)4 Madlnat al-Salam, 770/71, 776/77, 800/01, 877/78 or 887/881 al-Muhammidiyyah, 775/76 (?)1 al-'Abbasiyyah, 778/79