Vatican City: remembrance to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI featured on new 10-euro silver Proof coins

The Vatican State Mint has released new silver Proof coins in memory of the Late Pope-Emeritus Benedict XVI. The extraordinary issue of the 10-euro silver coin for 2023 is dedicated to the life and reign of Benedict XVI, who was a pontiff from April 2005 until February 2013. Having been elected to the papacy after […]

Vatican City: Rectangular-shaped silver Proof and colour coins feature Perugino’s The Resurrection of Christ 

The Treasury of the Holy See has released new 2023-dated 25-euro colour coins dedicated to Easter and features San Francesco al Prato’s The Resurrection of Christ. This particular oil on panel painting was commissioned in 1499 by Pietro Vannucci (c. 1446/1452–1523), known as “Perugino,” and whose death 500 years ago is marked this year. The work […]

Vatican City: Silver medal released for fundraising and focuses on Ukrainian invasion and war relief

The Vatican City State Mint has released an official medal on the theme of peace in Ukraine, and as a way to join calls for a return to dialogue. On the 24th February 2022, Russian armed forces began the war against Ukraine by crossing over internationally recognised borders and occupying Ukrainian territory. The medals are […]

Vatican City: €2 commemorative coins released remembering 450th anniversary of the birth of Caravaggio

The Vatican City State Mint has released (25th June) new commemorative €2 coins which are in celebration of the 450th anniversary of the birth of one of Italy’s most admired painters. Michelangelo Merisi, who was born in 1571, was called “il Caravaggio” after taking the name from the small town in the province of Bergamo […]

Vatican City: New 10-euro gold Proof coins features the sacrament of baptism

The Vatican City State Mint has released (25th June) new 10-euro gold Proof coins focusing on one of the seven sacraments performed as part of the Catholic faith. In terms of the Catholic rites, the sacrament of baptism is perhaps the most important of rites performed as a Christian. It is the first sacrament that […]

Vatican City: New €2 commemorative coin celebrates the genius of Renaissance artist Raffaello on the 500th anniversary of his death

The Ufficio Filatelico e Numismatico Governatorato della Città del Vaticano — Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State, Holy See, has issued (16th October) their second 2020-dated commemorative €2 coins which are in tribute to the 500th anniversary of the death of the “Prince of Painters,” Raffaello Sanzio (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino), known […]

Collecting Vatican coins

By Louis Golino Vatican City, the smallest independent state in the world that was founded in 1929, is located within the Italian capital Rome. Though not a member of the European Union or the eurozone, it has issued coins denominated in euros since 2002 through a bilateral agreement with Italy. Along with three other European […]

Vatican City: New copper coin series, “Art and Faith,” featuring Michelangelo’s Pietà launched

The Ufficio Filatelico e Numismatico Governatorato della Città del Vaticano — Holy See will issue (5th March) new copper collector coins which focus on the theme of “Art and Faith,” the combination of which has always characterised art and distinguishes countless masterpieces preserved in Vatican City, some of which will be the subject of this […]

Vatican City: Inauguration of gold three-year coin series featuring beloved archangels

The Ufficio Filatelico e Numismatico Governatorato della Città del Vaticano — Holy See has announced (20th November) the issue of new gold coins which will launch the start of a three-year gold coin release dedicated to the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. Beginning with the year 2019, the Vatican Treasury inaugurates the first of the […]

Vatican City: Portrait of Pope Francis Removed from Circulation Euro Coins

Note: The following is a re-post from World Mint News Blog’s sister site, Coin Update. The Treasury of Vatican City State (or the Holy See) announced on the 24th January that from March of this year, new 2017-dated coins and those thereafter issued will no longer carry the effigy of His Holiness Pope Francis. The decision […]