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Vatican Euro Coins

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 Posted 03/03/2011  11:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrisild to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hmm, the catalog price is €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.

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 Posted 03/04/2011  05:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ozzie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
so living in Italy would be necessary.
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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 ...

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this is an article for the second release of vatican starter kits


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2248615.stm
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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.

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