Chimtou, ancient Simitthus, is located in northwestern Tunisia on the Medjerda River near Jendouba. It is famous for its ancient and modern quarries, where the yellow “Numidian marble” was extracted. In the 1990s, a new archaeological museum was constructed and installed there in German-Tunisian cooperation, next to the workshop buildings of the early twentieth-century quarries.
During excavation work for the museum complex in May 1993, workers discovered a broken ceramic vessel in a construction pit filled with Late Antique gold coins dating to the early 5th century AD. This hoard, consisting of 1,648 coins (1,647 gold and 1 silver), is presented in detail in this volume, after having first been exhibited in 1995 in the French-Tunisian exhibition Carthage. L’histoire, sa trace et son écho in Paris and briefly discussed by its discoverer, Mustapha Khanoussi.
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Friday, August 21, 2026
Der spätantike Münzschatz von Simitthus/Chimtou
Hans Roland Baldus
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Mustapha Khanoussi
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