Vatican Coin Stamp Plaquered That Is In My Coin Collection

Hi Imag8r!

I can't really make out much detail on the coins from your photos, and you've only posted photos of one side. The coin should be dated. I think the bimetallic coin is a 1993 500 Lire (the date will be on the obverse in Roman numerals, as MCMXCIII).

There is one currently on ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1677-Vat...100005.m1851

This looks like an unofficial 'made up' set like those I frequently saw on sale in the souvenir shops around the Vatican when I used to take tourists around Europe on tour buses as a tour manager. The stamps are fairly cheap common ones and the price label looks as if it is for 30,000 Lire - equivalent in the 1990s to about £15 sterling or perhaps US$20.

Vatican coins are issued in quite small quantities, but those from the 1980s and 1990s were generally not widely collected outside Italy. Since the introduction of the Euro, however, collectors all over Europe have been saving Euro coins from all the states that issue them, with the result that post-2001 Vatican coin denominated in Euros tend to be much more valuable than those issued before that date with the denomination in Lire.