MALTA1c3Fortifications — 1c3 on 5dImage unavailable
1972MALTA5cEucharistic Congress — 5c on 1/3Image unavailable
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1972 / Heritage
Eucharistic Congress — 5c on 1/3
Decimal surcharges
Denomination5c
Issue date1972-09-30
The story behind the issue
Three historical definitives were revalued in decimal currency, with the original denominations barred out.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Underlying denomination
- 1/3
- Overprint / surcharge
- 5c; two black bars cancel the original value
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Government Printing Office, Valletta (surcharges)
- 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 ↗
- 1965 Gazette definitive notice: original 8d and 1/3 subjects ↗
- The Melite Post, September 2018: original 5d fortifications stamp and its 1972 surcharge ↗
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.