TAMENTFOUST 1943

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Location

City

Tamentfoust [تمنتفوست]

County

Region

Algiers

Country

Algeria

Ancient place

Rusguniae

Lat/Long/Alt

36.81 / 3.235 / 34.04 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

Found 3km to the west of Rusguniae. Findspot is estimate

Information

4927

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/4927

Hoard name

TAMENTFOUST 1943

Alternative names

RUSGUNIAE; Cap Matifou - Lapérouse; تمنتفوست

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

12 Aug 1943

Total number of coins

273

Summary

The hoard comprised 273 sestertii from Vespasian to Trebonianus Gallus.

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Discovery method

Other chance find
Discovery depth (m)

1.80
Land Use

Coastland
Finder(s)

American soldiers during WW2
Comment

Found during military operations in Algeria. The three lots come from Museum of Algier, the British Museum, the American Numismatic Society
Closing reign (earliest)

Trebonianus Gallus
Terminal year (earliest)

251
Closing reign (latest)

Trebonianus Gallus
Terminal year (latest)

253
Opening year (earliest)

71
Opening year (latest)

71
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Excellent
Findspot rating

Fair

Site comment

A suffragan bishopric of its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae's Metropolitan Archbishopric. Found near the seafront Bath complex.
Associated features

ln August 12,·1943, a group of American soldiers was assigned to a "work detail" ordered to obtain dirt and gravel from the beach along Cape Matafu at the far (northeast) end of the Bay of Algiers. "The bulldozer we had with us” writes the soldier who obtained the hoard, "dug into a small hillock of dirt along the beach, and when the bulldozer was about level with the beach, riding the wave of dirt then appeared a small earthen urn or vase. Upon reaching the crest the vase disintegrated into sand and small objects scattered from it. We retrieved them, and upon investigation (there was a clay-like brick matter encrusting them) found these objects to be Roman coins " (Letter to Mr. Sydney P. Noe from M. H. D'Lasnow, April 12, 1946. Mr. D'Lasnow has told me that the soldiers present at the lime of the discovery dug to a depth of six feet in the vicinity, but they found nothing further). Salama 1957, 209, n. 4
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Uncertain

Context

Uncertain

Period

Hellenistic
End period

Roman

Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn or cooking pot

Disintegrated at the moment of finding.

References

Reference

Salama, P. - 1957 - Le trouvaille de sesterces de Rusguniae. Histoire d'une découverte

Ref

205-245

Comment

Published in 3 lots pdf under web link

Reference

Salama, Pierre - 1979 - Huit siècles de circulation monétaire sur les sites cotières de Maurétanie centrale et orientale, IIIe siècle av. J.C. - Ve siècle ap. J.C.

Ref

109-146

Comment

Inv. 113

Reference

Salama, P. - 2004 - La rareté des trésors de sesterces en Afrique Proconsulaire

Ref

Comment

Inv. 8

P.Walton (2014); updated by C. Gazdac (October 2018). Coin-level data added by M. Ball (August 2022).

Coin Hoards
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TAMENTFOUST 1943

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn or cooking pot

Disintegrated at the moment of finding.

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

TAMENTFOUST 1943

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn or cooking pot

Disintegrated at the moment of finding.

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