In fact, the results of archeological investigations have sometimes uncovered unique artifacts, the existence of which may shed new light on the examination of many questions. For instance, inscribed Armenian weights are not known, and from this perspective a newfound bronze weight with an Armenian inscription, from the medieval settlement of Tarasova, a village located on the right bank of Dniester (Republic of Moldova, Rezina County), has great importance. The main employment of Armenians who migrated to Moldova in the 17th-18th centuries was in trade and crafts, attested not only by medieval written sources but also by unique archaeological findings. One of them is the abovementioned bronze weight from Tarasova, kept in a private collection, which was recently published in a preliminary way by the authors of this paper. On one side of the weight there is an Armenian inscription – the name Ghap’lan, who most likely was the owner. It weighs 315 grams or about 100 Ottoman dirhems. Following preliminary examination, the object was dated to the 17th-18th centuries or a little later. The still ongoing analysis of the monetary discoveries from Tarasova – over 500 coins, of which only 153 published – allows the weight’s dating to be nuanced. Thus, the authors found that most coins belong to the 15th-17th centuries and very few are more recent than the time of Prince Eustratie Dabija (1661-1665). Therefore, the monetary discoveries indicate the destruction of the settlement sometime after 1665, possibly during the uprising of Mihalcea Hîncu (1671-1672) or the great Ottoman campaign of August 1672, which ended with the occupation of the fortress of Kamianets. The state of war that characterizes the end of the seventeenth century and the presence of the Ottomans in Kamianets and later in Khotyn disrupted trade and economic life in general. In these circumstances a part of the Armenians left the old settlements, while some migrated permanently to Transylvania and other regions. All these considerations plead for an early dating of the Armenian weight in the proposed interval (17th-18th centuries), with the possibility that it was lost at the time of the destruction of the settlement (in 1672 or in the following years).