Megalithic buildings

Maltese industry definitives

Denomination5m

Issue date1981-10-31

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The story behind the issue

Sixteen definitives trace activities from ancient building and cultivation to modern transport and communications.

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Technical details

Issuing authority: Malta General Post Office
Postal purpose: Postage
Currency: Maltese pound / lira · decimal
Designer: Frank Portelli
Printer: Printex Limited, Malta
Printing process: Lithography
Stamp dimensions: 33 × 20 mm
Perforation: 13.75 × 13.75
Watermark: Maltese crosses, upright
Paper: Chalk surfaced
Colour: Not documented
Quantity: Not documented

Sources & verification

Partially verified

Research notes: All sixteen values were released on 31 October 1981, established by the contemporary study, diary and first-day hand-postmark. The journal publication year 1982 is not an issue date.

Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 11(3), pp. 3–5; diary July–December 1981 ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

Basic design/value types and explicitly documented major watermark differences; excludes unchanged reprints, plate/pane numbers, errors and repeated formats.