In this dissertational research the main problematic questions of the history of the Hetman State money circulation during 1648 to 1764 were completely and deeply analyzed for the first time in Ukrainian and world historical science. Special attention was focused on the question of the economic expansion and aggression of Muscovy against Ukrainian lands carried out by unsuccessful monetary reforms. In this study we have proved that the actions of the Moscow government against the Ukrainian money market, traditionally oriented to the countries of Western Europe, can be characterized only by the use of Ukrainian lands as a platform for the financial experiments. This is evidenced by such an actions of the Moscow tsardom and Russian imperial governments:
1. Involving into the monetary circulation the thalers with the special countermarks with the higher against market price;
2. Involving into the monetary circulation of a copper rubles and poltines in mid. XVII cent., which were distributed with the representatives of Moscow authorities in Ukrainian markets, which can be confidently compared with the secret spread of a fake coin at the state level.
3. Introduction to the circulation of copper coins at the nominal price of silver coins in the 1660's;
4. The project of the production of the Czechs in Putivl in the 1670's;
5. The introduction to the monetary circulation of the low quality imitations of the poltoraks of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth minted in Sevsk in 1686;
6. The project of introducing into the Ukrainian markets of the cheap Moscow polushkas of the 1720's.
There has been given a further development of the elaboration of the iconography of the project of the Putivl Czechs. The general picture of the finds of counterfeit coins of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and other issuers of Central and Western Europe on the Hetman State territory was formed and analyzed, confirming the results of previous studies in Ukrainian numismatic historiography with the new modern excavations.
We have also characterized the finds of the Islamic coins on the territory of the Hetman State which are the first in the national historical science general analysis the findings of the coins of the Islamic world in the studied period.
We consider it absolutely necessary to change the ideological course in the study of the circulation of «efimoks with signs», focusing on the criminal facts of the financial aggression of the Muscovy at the planning stage of the reform. We study the processes of circulation of coins in Ukraine in accordance with historical reality, in contrast to the positions of ideologically engrossed works of the imperial and Soviet times.
The functions and the role of Moscow gold coins are specified. We can confidently assume that the studied by M. Kotlyar and V. Ryabtsevich «rewardings» of the Cossacks army of Bogdan Khmelnytsky was the usual gratuity when the payment made by a gold coin. Such forms of payment does not characterize in any way the form of relations of Ukrainians and the Moscow kingdom as the servants described by predecessors, but is paid for the provided military services and support on parity conditions, which was successfully concealed and masked by Soviet historians in describing the main function of the golden kopeck as a predominantly peculiar award than a circulating coin.
During the second half of the XVII and the first half of the XVIII cent., the local population has falsified all of the most common types of the Moscow and Russian coins.
At the beginning of the 20th century in the numismatic circles of Ukraine there was an active scientific discussion about the probability of the production by the Cossack Hetman of the imitative own coins. However, several times published sources of that time, without the description of such a coins themselves, remain only the basis for the various hypotheses. To the coins that could have been hypothetically made by the order of Bogdan Khmelnytsky, we can conventionally include the imitations of the poltoraks, made with the use of silver. The plans of Ivan Vyhovsky about the starting of his own coinage of the Grand Duchy of Rus in Kiev, like the Polish-Lithuanian coins, unfortunately, have not been fulfilled. We assume that coins borrowed from the name and on the initiative of Peter Doroshenko could be coins of average denomination, made of silver. According to our deep conviction, the issues on behalf of the Cossack Hetmans were real, as evidenced by the analysis of the new Ukrainian treasures, which are described in the dissertation, which include coins that are typical to the ones possibly minted by hetmans.
We believe that the main achievement of this dissertation research is the formation of an objective and unbiased vision of the history of the monetary circulation of Ukraine-Hetman State in 1648-1764, we have described and analyzed the main content of the reforms of the Moscow authorities in Ukraine.
