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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 42228, member: 39&quot;]Hehe, good idea <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Well, the Vatican - like the other two small &quot;non-EU-but-euro&quot; countries - knows very well that its coins are not actually required for circulation. So the only people interested in these pieces are collectors ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The number of coins that the Vatican can issue is not limited but the &quot;face value maximum&quot; is. That limit is now €1 million per year; on specified occasions it may be more:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&amp;lg=en&amp;type_doc=Decision&amp;an_doc=2003&amp;nu_doc=738" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&amp;lg=en&amp;type_doc=Decision&amp;an_doc=2003&amp;nu_doc=738" rel="nofollow">http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&amp;lg=en&amp;type_doc=Decision&amp;an_doc=2003&amp;nu_doc=738</a></p><p><i>The term &quot;Jubilee Year&quot; in the Council Decision refers to what the Vatican calls Holy Year (Anno Santo), usually every 25 years. The last one was in 2000.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Why don&#039;t these coins never show up in circulation? Well, blame us collectors <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I remember that when I was in Rome in the 90s and also shortly before the cash changeover, Vatican coins did circulate to some (very limited) extent. For example, it was nothing extraordinary to get a VA 500 lire piece as change when buying tickets for the Vatican Museums. Tempi passati ;-)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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