Pages: 296-298

The article is a study of Chersonese copper coins dated by 850 – 10th cc. which have been found on one of the medieval sites of Kursk Posemye. Besides attribution of the finds, the author attempts to analyze probable sources and time of their occurrence in the southeast of the Ancient Russia – either as military trophies after campaigns of the Russian princes against Chersonese at the end of the 10th century, and, possibly, the second half of the 9th century, or as a result of trade relations between Byzantium and Russia.

Keywords: Coins of Chersonese, Besedynsky (Ratsky) Complex, Byzantium, Russia