Vatican City

anyone got pictures of the money they use?

 

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Thats kinda interesting, i was reading the history of the city and they said they used their own money.

 

Some Vatican Euro Coins can be seen here.

Vatican City also has it's own telephone, drug store and postal system.
Poste Vaticane is more reliable and quicker than Poste Italiane as well.

 

how hard is it to get some money from there? coin/paper?

 

My cousin (actually second cousin who is a priest) gave me an old coin from the Vatican. I'll try to post it tommorrow.

 

My two Centesimi

 

Today's coins from the Vatican looks like this:

* The "circulation" coins
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/the_euro/coins8691_en.htm

* The commemorative coins
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/the_euro/coins8729_en.htm

Note that "circulation" is in inverted commas. The Vatican does not issue any coins for circulation. On one hand that makes sense since, like anybody else in Euroland, they can use all euro and cent circulation coins. On the hand one might ask why they "need" to issue coins at all then.

That is why the European Commission recently suggested modifying the monetary agreements with MC, SM and VA. The new rules, if approved by the Council, would allow them to issue more coins per year, but only part of the volume could then be sold at higher prices.

Christian

 

Since I cannot edit my older posts here, this is a separate post with only little additional info. Anyway, this is what a current €2 piece from the Vatican looks like:



Here is the reverse (common side) of that denomination. Note however that this updated map was not used until 2007, and VA did not use it until 2008.



Christian

 

my girlfriend does the forigen stuff, and she just informard me we have a few coins from there.

 

Here's my Vatican coin:

 

Very nice coin, in a very cool state.

 

Thank you.

 

Thanks krispy, that's a most useful link

Q

 

No problem.

 

Just saw this Vatican Mint piece available in an upcoming TeleTrade auction:

[FONT=geneva,arial]Vatican Mint State Set 1950 Holy Year NGC 65[/FONT]

thought the thread and OP might like to see this given the topic.

 

Vatican coins can be purchased online, directly from the Vatican. I'm not sure if they ship to the U.S., though.

 

Would be interesting to know how. The UFN store has been in some "test phase", and not operational, for a long time. You can however ask to be added to their list of customers.

Christian

 

I have never actually purchased coins from the Vatican because of the price, so I didn't know the site was no longer operational.

 

Mine: