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2002 / Historical figures
Athanasius Kircher
Maltese personalities
Denomination15c
Issue date2002-10-18
The story behind the issue
Five denominations honour personalities.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Harry Borg
- Printer
- Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Germany
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The diary notes a missing denomination-dot printing flaw affecting some 15c and 35c stamps. Minor printing flaws are excluded from this basic inventory.
Image & attribution
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Ordinary basic design/value types and explicitly documented major technical changes, including distinct miniature-sheet stamps and self-adhesive booklet types. Excludes postage dues (separate audit), unchanged reprints, tabs, repeated formats, plate states and minor varieties.