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Metal Detecting Finds in Tanzania

1 published discovery in the Hoards category from Tanzania — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Hoards from Tanzania

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Famous find11th century AD, buried in or after 1066 · found 1984

The Mtambwe Hoard: coins picked up by islanders on Pemba led to a merchant's fortune and East Africa's earliest silver money

Tanzania · Hoards

In December 1984 coins picked up by local people on Mtambwe Mkuu, an islet off Pemba in Tanzania, led archaeologists to a hoard under a house floor. It held about 650 silver coins struck in East Africa and eight gold dinars from the Fatimid world, hidden after 1066.