MALTA6cFIFA World Cup · France 1998 · 6cImage unavailable
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1998 / Sport
FIFA World Cup · France 1998 · 16c
FIFA World Cup · France 1998
Denomination16c
Issue date1998-06-10
The story behind the issue
FIFA World Cup · France 1998: 3 basic design/value types.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Richard J. Caruana
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 13.75 × 13.9
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- 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.