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1973 / Heritage
Regatta
First decimal definitives
Denomination7c5
Issue date1973-03-31
The story behind the issue
Fifteen designs present Maltese life, activities and national symbols in the new decimal currency.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Emvin Cremona
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Qormi
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 24.8 × 26.4 mm, vertical; £M2 differs
- Perforation
- 13.6 × 13.5; £M2 differs (announced gauges)
- Watermark
- Maltese Crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verified- Government Gazette 13 March 1973, Notice 196, p. 759 ↗
- Original complete fifteen-stamp set, inspected specimen ↗
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.
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