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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 46022, member: 39&quot;]Right; here is some brief information (from <a href="http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l25040.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l25040.htm" rel="nofollow">http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l25040.htm</a>, scroll down a little to &quot;SITUATION BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE EURO&quot;) about the pre-euro agreements:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Italy also has particular monetary links with the Vatican that are based on an agreement whereby coins issued by Italy were legal tender in the Vatican. Notes issued by the Bank of Italy were not legal tender but, in practice, circulated on Vatican territory. Coins other than gold coins issued by the Vatican had the same shape, size and composition as coins circulating in Italy. The agreement limited the number of such coins that could be issued; these were legal tender in the Vatican and in Italy.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So the limitations were similar to what we have today. But the text does not provide any mintage figures concerning the old IT/VA monetary agreement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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