Europe. 4 Complete Euro Trial / Probe Sets – 2002–2010 (United Kingdom, Sweden & Vatican City) (No reserve price)

United Kingdom, Sweden & Vatican City – 4 Complete Euro Trial / Probe Sets – 2002–2010

Collection of four complete Euro Trial / Essai / Probe sets, comprising issues for the United Kingdom, Sweden and Vatican City.

The lot contains:
- United Kingdom – 2002 – complete 8-piece trial set
Designs featuring British national imagery, including Britannia. The pieces are marked Trial / Probe / Essai and Specimen.
- Sweden – 2003 – complete 8-piece trial set
Swedish-themed designs, presented in the standard eight-denomination euro format.
- Vatican City – 2002 – complete 8-piece trial set
Featuring Pope John Paul II, with the inscriptions Prueba – Trial – Essai – Probe and Città del Vaticano.
- Vatican City – 2010 – complete 8-piece trial set
Featuring Pope Benedict XVI, likewise produced as a complete eight-piece trial series.

Each set consists of 8 different pieces, based on the denominations:
1 cent – 2 cent – 5 cent – 10 cent – 20 cent – 50 cent – 1 euro – 2 euro
Specifications
- 4 complete sets
- 8 pieces per set
- 32 pieces in total
- All pieces individually housed in transparent capsules
- Presented in blue Euro-Collection folders
- Two Euro-Collection guarantee/certificate cards are included, as shown in the photographs
- Various copper-coloured, gold-coloured, silver-coloured and bimetallic designs

These trial issues were produced specifically for the collectors’ market and form an interesting group from countries with very different relationships to the euro: Vatican City as an official euro-issuing state, alongside British and Swedish trial designs.

A varied collection with four complete series and 32 individual pieces, including two different Vatican issues representing John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

Please see the photographs for the exact contents and presentation of the lot.