MALTA35cEx-voto · kneeling knight and galley fleetImage unavailable
1999MALTA6cVirgin and Child · Mellieħa iconImage unavailable
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1999 / Faith & tradition
Virgin and Child · Mellieħa icon
Our Lady of Mellieħa · coronation centenary
Denomination6c
Issue date1999-10-06
The story behind the issue
Our Lady of Mellieħa · coronation centenary: 2 basic design/value types.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- Joseph Mizzi
- Printer
- Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Germany
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- None
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedIssue identity and stated fields are sourced. Independent original-specimen and remaining technical checks are still open.
- Anthony Fenech, contemporary 1999 postal diary, PSM 29(2), pp. 31–38 ↗
- Original Mellieħa single and miniature-sheet specimens, Marian Stamp Album 11, p. 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.