MALTA6cInternational Year of the Ocean · 6cImage unavailable
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1998 / The natural world
International Year of the Ocean · 2c
International Year of the Ocean
Denomination2c
Issue date1998-05-27
The story behind the issue
International Year of the Ocean: 4 basic design/value types.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Isabella Borg
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedIssue date, face value and basic type membership are sourced. The precise design-to-value caption and independent technical checks remain open.
- Farrugia, 1998 issue studies, PSM 31(2), pp. 22–31 ↗
- Anthony Fenech, contemporary 1998 postal diary, PSM 29(1) ↗
Image & attribution
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Basic ordinary postage types plus separately documented major watermark, paper, perforation or denomination differences. Excludes unchanged reprints, errors, marginal positions and repeated presentation formats.