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1998 / Places & architecture
Valletta · European City of Culture
Valletta · European City of Culture
Denomination26c
Issue date1998-02-26
The story behind the issue
Valletta · European City of Culture: 1 basic design/value type.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta postal administration
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- Frank Ancilleri
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, sideways
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedThe original study contradicts itself: its table gives perforation 14 × 14, but the detailed sheet paragraph gives 13 × 13.1. Gauge is omitted pending independent specimen inspection.
- Farrugia, 1998 issue studies, PSM 31(2), pp. 22–31 ↗
- Anthony Fenech, contemporary 1998 postal diary, PSM 29(1) ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Basic ordinary postage types plus separately documented major watermark, paper, perforation or denomination differences. Excludes unchanged reprints, errors, marginal positions and repeated presentation formats.
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