My uncle bought a coin a couple of weeks ago, which seems to not exist... It's a 20 lire Vatican gold coin from 1950 which looks the same as the 100 lire one, except for the value of 20 lire on it. The weight of the coin was a bit more than the 100 lire vatican coin from 1950. I think it was 6.2 gram (I can check at home) Does anyone know of the existence of this coin?
Welcome to CoinTalk. Below are some links you can look through in your serach: Vatican City [a CT thread] VaticanCoins.com Papal_mint [Wikipedia] Vatican_euro_coins [Wikipedia]
Thanks for the links . I looked through them but I didn't see the coin I was looking for. As far as I know it looks the same as the 100 lire one. My uncle is also a coin collector so he has a lot of books. A gold coin merchant was selling it and he just bought it because he didn't know it. That's why he thinks this coin is very special, not being in any of his books.
Without a photo of the coin it's very hard to tell what you have. Post pics of both sides of his coin and see if any other members can help you out.
It took me some time to get the photo's but here they are: http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7968/coin1u.jpg http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/9783/coini.jpg So, does anyone know/recognise this coin?
Not quite sure what it is. But neither my catalog (Schön, World Coins) nor the Vatican's Numismatic Office http://www.vaticanstate.va/IT/Servi...ing_emissioni--id--Shop Monete--cat--1950.htm list the L20 piece ... Christian
