BYZANTINE COINS, 4 pcs, 3 in bronze, 1 in silver, Marcian Byzantine Emperor 450-457 AD, Heraclius, Emperor 610-641 AD, Justinian I, Emperor 527-565 AD, Constans II, Emperor 641-668 (silver coins).

Diameter of silver coin approx. 23 mm, weight approx. 4,6 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 that we sell parts of here.