Two silver coins, Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor 1081-1118, tetarteron, nomisma, minted in Thessalonike, Heraclius, Byzantine Emperor 610-641.

Diameter approx. 17, weight approx. 3,4 as well as 10 mm and 0,4 g

Provenance: Marie-Louise Smith (1927-2014) and then gift and bequest to the current owner. The coins were acquired at coin auctions and in coin shops between about 1960-2000.

Coin collecting has a long tradition within the Smith family where Marie-Louise Smith's grandfather Otto Smith (1864-1935) was a significant coin collector and who in 1929 donated the lion's share of his collection of coins from antiquity to the then Royal Mint Cabinet. The coins inherited by Marie-Louise Smith were used as the framework for exchanging and buying new coins to shape the collection of Byzantine gold coins now sold here.