The article discusses coin finds made during archaeological excavations conducted by the Institute of Archaeology RAS in 2019–2021 on the territory of the Grand Public Garden of the Moscow Kremlin. The main research object of the excavations were the foundations of the Old and New Prikazy (administrative bodies) buildings from the second half of the 16th – 17th century and a cultural layer rich in finds deposited next to them. A total of 193 Russian coins and a fragment of a West European counting token were found. Only four of them date back to the 15th century, while all the rest were issued between the 2nd third of the 16th century to the 1620s in various minting centres of the Russian state (Moscow, Tver, Veliky Novgorod, and Pskov). The composition of the real money supply circulating in the centre of the capital during this period is of particular interest. The published collection provides valuable data on the history of Moscow monetary circulation during the Tsarist period, especially the 17th century, including the era of the monetary reform of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (1655–1663).
Volkov et al. (2025) studied this question.