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1975MALTA25cPresident addressing the publicImage unavailable
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1975 / Heritage
President addressing the public
Birth of the Republic
Denomination25c
Issue date1975-03-31
The story behind the issue
Three designs commemorate Malta becoming a republic on 13 December 1974; the stamps themselves were issued on 31 March 1975.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Emvin Cremona
- Printer
- Printex Ltd., Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Multiple Maltese Crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedThe contemporary issue report supports the basic inventory and stated fields. Independent specimen and original-notice checks of the remaining technical attributes are still open.
Image & attribution
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All 3 original basic design/value types in this issue. Unchanged printings, plate positions and specialist varieties are excluded.