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1972 / Heritage
Ritual altar coin
First decimal coinage
Denomination5c
Issue date1972-05-16
The story behind the issue
Eight stamps depict the new decimal coins, linking currency reform with Maltese symbols and antiquities.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Format International Security Printers Ltd.
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verified- Joe Farrugia, Plate and Imprint Blocks — 1972, PSM 5(3), pp. 7–9 ↗
- South African Philatelist, June 1972, New Issues, p. 152 ↗
- Max Mangion, Maltese Stamps — collector summary of GPO bulletins ↗
Image & attribution
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Ordinary basic design/value types; excludes postage dues, repeated miniature-sheet or booklet formats, plate numbers, errors and minor varieties.