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The controversy over Vatican gold

offthehorseoffthehorse Posts: 127
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During my recent trip to Rome I purchased the sought-after 2002 20 and 50 euro 1st year proofset of JPII. I heard that the Vatican might have used gold from victims of the Holocaust. Does anyone know about this issue? Also, are these coins worthy long-term investments? Only 2800 were minted. I also have the 2003 set that I will give as gifts to family.

Thanks,
barn aka offthehorse
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Comments

  • gxseriesgxseries Posts: 423
    You should honestly think coins strictly as a hobby and not as an investment option. Sure you can, but prices are too voliatle. As for the gold... I mean this is a ridicious question. You have no signs of telling if it is indeed gold from the victims of the Holocaust. It may be abosulte zero % or oops, someone accidently added one gram of such gold, or it could be 100% but there is no such tellsign! Metals are recycleable so you will never know if gold was obtained by illegal means or whatsoever. image
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  • BigAlanBigAlan Posts: 311 ✭
    There have been a lot of bad things said about Pius XII and World War II but I don't recall anything about the Church, as a whole, gaining financially.
    "It is good for the state that the people do not think."

    Adolf Hitler
  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    It seems hard to believe that anyone could tell whether coins minted in 2002 contain gold stolen from Holocaust victims 60 years previously.
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