MALTA5cLocal coats of arms — upper right quarterImage unavailable
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1993 / Heritage
Local coats of arms — upper left quarter
Local councils
Denomination5c
Issue date1993-11-20
The story behind the issue
Four five-cent stamps combine into a circular composition of local coats of arms.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Department of Posts
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- Joseph Mizzi
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 48 × 39.5 mm
- Perforation
- 14 × 14
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, sideways
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: An inspected original sheet confirms four different quarter designs, each 5c. Position describes the complete sheet and avoids unsupported identification of every local coat of arms.
- Joseph Farrugia, contemporary issue study / postal diary, PSM 24(2-3), p. 28 ↗
- Original Local Councils 1993 miniature sheet exhibited at Malta Postal Museum, photograph visually inspected ↗
Image & attribution
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Ordinary basic design/value types plus explicitly documented major watermark differences. Excludes postage dues (separately researched), unchanged reprints, repeated formats, plate/pane numbers, errors and minor varieties.