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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2645098, member: 39"]In European forums this has been discussed a lot, primarily because the design change is an apparent violation of EU law. <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32014R0729" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32014R0729" rel="nofollow">Regulation 729/2014</a> says, in Article 7, that:</p><p>"1. Changes to the designs used for the national sides of regular coins may only be made once every 15 years (...)</p><p>2. Without prejudice to paragraph 1, changes to the designs used for the national sides of regular coins may be made where the Head of State referred to on a coin changes (...)"</p><p><br /></p><p>The Vatican has had four different designs of its euro circulation coins so far: in 2002 (introduction, John Paul II), in 2005 (Vacant See; such issues are now explicitly forbidden), in 2006 (Benedict XVI), and in 2014 (Francis I). Three years later they plan to update the design again, only because the very same Francis now wants to see his CoA (his personal one, not the country's) on the coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>But the change has already been <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOC_2017_023_R_0006" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOC_2017_023_R_0006" rel="nofollow">published</a> in the EU Official Journal. And at the Vatican City (UFN) booth at the World Money Fair they already showed the pieces ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2645098, member: 39"]In European forums this has been discussed a lot, primarily because the design change is an apparent violation of EU law. [url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32014R0729]Regulation 729/2014[/url] says, in Article 7, that: "1. Changes to the designs used for the national sides of regular coins may only be made once every 15 years (...) 2. Without prejudice to paragraph 1, changes to the designs used for the national sides of regular coins may be made where the Head of State referred to on a coin changes (...)" The Vatican has had four different designs of its euro circulation coins so far: in 2002 (introduction, John Paul II), in 2005 (Vacant See; such issues are now explicitly forbidden), in 2006 (Benedict XVI), and in 2014 (Francis I). Three years later they plan to update the design again, only because the very same Francis now wants to see his CoA (his personal one, not the country's) on the coins? But the change has already been [url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOC_2017_023_R_0006]published[/url] in the EU Official Journal. And at the Vatican City (UFN) booth at the World Money Fair they already showed the pieces ... Christian[/QUOTE]
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