We are pleased to present our two major autumn auctions.
Over the next few days, Auctions 43 and 44 will go online, together comprising more than 1,450 lots, with starting prices ranging from NOK 100 to NOK 5 million.
The range is unusually broad. The auctions include coins dating from around 550 BC through to issues struck within the last 20 years. Several pieces are unique in private hands, while others belong to types for which the opportunity to add an example to a collection arises only very rarely.
Among the highlights is Per Rui’s extensive collection of important ancient and world coins. The gold section alone comprises more than 70 coins, spanning the period from Croesus and Carthage through Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, Galba and Otho, and continuing to Justinian II, represented by the celebrated type bearing the first portrait of Christ on a coin. The silver section is no less impressive, with a long series of important Greek, Roman and later issues.
The collection was formed with a clear interest in historically significant rulers, periods and coin types, giving the auction a substantial ancient section combining breadth, quality and many coins rarely offered together in Norway.
Beyond the Rui Collection, the auctions contain further ancient coins of considerable rarity, high collector appeal and very attractive quality. One of the most spectacular highlights is certainly the EID MAR denarius of Brutus.
China is represented by an exceptional rarity: a Heilungkiang brass pattern, with only one other example presently documented to us.
Among the major European coins are a German 20-ducat piece from 1739, a Danish 10-ducat issue of 1591, and a four-taler commemorative coin from Wolgast, recorded as having formed part of the King Farouk Collection.
Russia is represented by, among other pieces, a Nicholas II rouble of 1912 in uncirculated condition, as well as a 5 roubles of 1904 in similarly strong preservation.
The United States section includes a long run of attractive Morgan dollars together with a number of appealing smaller denominations, many of them still ungraded.
And these are only a few examples from an unusually extensive auction, with material from the ancient world, Scandinavia, Germany, Russia, the United States and many other collecting areas.
For many months, we have been working on the catalogues and the presentation of the material. The result is catalogues 43 and 44 in the series – two substantial and richly illustrated volumes which will in due course be sent to our registered clients.
If you would also like to receive the catalogues, they may be ordered at contact@oslomyntgalleri.no.
Auction 43 + 44
21–22 November 2026
Grand Hotel, Oslo
The programme and further information on viewing, timings and the conduct of the auction will be published over the next few days, together with the complete PDF versions of the catalogues and the opening of the online catalogues on our website.