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2004MALTA28cSigning of the accession treatyImage unavailable
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2004 / Society & public life
Signing of the accession treaty
Malta’s accession to the European Union
Denomination28c
Issue date2004-05-01
The story behind the issue
A common flags design and the signing of the accession treaty mark EU membership.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Pierre Mizzi, J. P. Advertising Limited
- Printer
- Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Germany
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedImage & 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.