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chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 03/03/2011 11:17 am Hmm, the catalog price is â‚¬800; not sure what the "street" price is these days. The problem with those Vatican starter kits is that nobody could simply get them as you could/can get regular starter kits. You had to be a Vatican citizen or employee in order to get one. Christian Report this Post to the Staff
Ozzie Valued Member Cyprus 349 Posts	Posted 03/04/2011 05:37 am so living in Italy would be necessary. Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 03/04/2011 12:37 pm The "average" Italian could not get them either - as I wrote, being a citizen or employee of the Vatican was the decisive factor. Besides, the purpose of a starter kit is to familiarize people with the coins; that is why they are distributed in a country before the euro becomes legal tender there. In Italy for example the Italian kit was first issued on 15 December 2001. The Vatican "kit" however were issued in March 2002 ... Christian Report this Post to the Staff
Ozzie Valued Member Cyprus 349 Posts	Posted 03/04/2011 2:44 pm this is an article for the second release of vatican starter kits http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2248615.stm Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 03/04/2011 7:32 pm The BBC article is not about starter kits, I think, but about the BU set (65,000 sets, issued on 1 March 2002) and the proof set (9,000 sets, issued on 10 September 2002). Now compare the latter date and the day when the article was published. Those "Vatican starter kits" however had a volume of 5,000 only. Christian Report this Post to the Staff
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