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Commemorations 1983 — 20c
Commemorations 1983
Denomination20c
Issue date1983-07-14
The story behind the issue
Four denominations form the contemporary commemorations issue, described in the postal diary as World Communication Year.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Donald Friggieri
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 43 × 21.5 mm
- Perforation
- 13.4 × 13.7
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, sideways
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: Value-specific commemorative subjects have not been independently mapped; neutral issue/value titles are retained.
- Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 13(2), pp. 22–24 ↗
- Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 12(4), diary May–August 1983 ↗
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Basic design/value types and explicitly documented major watermark differences; excludes unchanged reprints, plate/pane numbers, errors and repeated formats.