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1986 / Maritime history
Maltese ships IV · 20c
Maltese ships IV
Denomination20c
Issue date1986-11-19
The story behind the issue
Maltese ships IV, issued as 4 basic design/value types.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Norbert Attard
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 13.6
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedFirst day and denomination are supported by the contemporary report. A precise design-to-value caption and independent specimen cross-check remain open.
Image & attribution
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Original basic design/value types; documented major paper, watermark and perforation alternatives are separately identified. Unchanged reprints, errors and plate/pane positions are excluded.