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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 82558, member: 39&quot;]On one hand, these three countries do not issue many coins - and why should they? Practically the demand in Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican is negligible - they could, and do, use circulation coins from any euro country. (Andorra, for example, uses the euro cash too, and yet does not issue any euro coins at this stage.) But the former three issued their own franc or lire coins before the changeover, and made some extra money by selling them to collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>MC, SM and VA are not actually members of the European Union or the currency union but have monetary agreements with the EU. These agreements allow them to issue a certain volume of coins. Now compare the mintages of the three and those of other countries ...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.eurocoins.liesemeijer.com/Mintage.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.eurocoins.liesemeijer.com/Mintage.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.eurocoins.liesemeijer.com/Mintage.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>... and you know why they are relatively expensive. Before the currency union, collectors in Greece or Ireland, for example, did not care that much about francs from Monaco or lire from San Marino. Nowadays all this is &quot;the euro, our money&quot;, and more people than before want them.</p><p><br /></p><p>But of course you may well say that you collect only the euro coins from EU member states (which leaves the three &quot;mini-countries&quot; out) or that you collect only pieces that actually occur in circulation <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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