Authentic colour front scan matching visible denomination/design; not watermark, paper, perforation or shade authentication
1953 / Historical figures
Elizabeth II · Coronation · Black and green
Coronation of Elizabeth II
Denomination1½d
Issue date1953-06-03
The story behind the issue
Malta’s single contribution to the Commonwealth coronation issue.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co.
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Recess printing
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 13½ × 13 (comb)
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Black and green
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- Carmel Bonnici · British Monarchs on Maltese Stamps (2), The Melite Post 3 (2017), pp. 3 and 5 ↗
- John V. De Battista · The Visits of H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II to Malta, JMPS 50(3), pp. 9–13 ↗
- Geir Sør-Reime · World of Stamps: Malta, Stamp News Online 23 (2012), pp. 6–7 · issued stamps illustrated ↗
- MaltaPost Philately · 1953 Coronation 1½d · official issue record ↗
Image & attribution
British colonial stamp artwork; Pygar1954, own-work front reproduction via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — PD-UKGov expressly declared on exact Commons file page; original government stamp design published 1953, over 70 years before this review
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