Best place to buy Euros (for Collectors)

I am a born again Coin collector. I started in the 70's and restarted in
the late 90's. I am interested in getting Euro coin sets directly from the
government mints. I currently have the set mentioned in
http://catalog.usmint.gov/wcs/wcs_co...r;1000,00.html
This is the USA 2002 Quarters and Euro set. Are there such things as proof
Euro coins? Do any of the mints have direct buying programs? I most likely
would like to buy online. I will be in the Netherlands next week and
Germany in February so could possibly go directly to a mint. Appreciate any
replies.

dennis

You can get sets of coins directly from
San marino
www.aasfn.sm
and vatican city
you just have to subscribe to their service
san marino asks for a depot covering the costs of the set
nominally set 2004 eur 40 plus 4 for postage
both of them are very efficient and will send you
a preliminaty issuing programme and then every
now and then the booking form for every issue.

good luck
pls note that if you are lucky enough to buy these sets when they are
issued.. there will be a huge line and it goes one set per person.
also monaco issues euro coins.
but I failed to find their webpage.
"Dennis G. Rears" ha scritto nel messaggio
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I am a born again Coin collector. I started in the 70's and restarted in
the late 90's. I am interested in getting Euro coin sets directly from
the
government mints. I currently have the set mentioned in

http://catalog.usmint.gov/wcs/wcs_co...r;1000,00.html
This is the USA 2002 Quarters and Euro set. Are there such things as
proof
Euro coins? Do any of the mints have direct buying programs? I most
likely
would like to buy online. I will be in the Netherlands next week and
Germany in February so could possibly go directly to a mint. Appreciate
any
replies.

dennis

"Dennis G. Rears" wrote in message ...
I am a born again Coin collector. I started in the 70's and restarted in
the late 90's. I am interested in getting Euro coin sets directly from the
government mints. I currently have the set mentioned in

http://catalog.usmint.gov/wcs/wcs_co...2A6+ prmenbr;
1000,00.html
This is the USA 2002 Quarters and Euro set. Are there such things as proof
Euro coins? Do any of the mints have direct buying programs? I most likely
would like to buy online. I will be in the Netherlands next week and
Germany in February so could possibly go directly to a mint. Appreciate any
replies.

you can buy from someone like this:

http://www.eurocoins.co.uk/2002offic...nmintsets.html

Bearing in mind your other costs, you may find that buying
everything from this type of dealer to actually work out cheaper.

If you don't like the idea of buying from a small dealer over
the internet you will find coin shops in may European towns
who can help you when you visit.

tim


dennis