MALTA€1.00 / 43cAphrodite — €1.00Image unavailable
2008MALTA€1.00 / 43cSleeping Lady — €1.00Image unavailable
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2008 / Heritage
Sleeping Lady — €1.00
Euro adoption — Malta and Cyprus joint issue
Denomination€1.00 / 43c
Issue date2008-01-01
Both amounts are printed on the same stamp. This is one collecting record; the second value is transcribed from the source, not calculated.
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Both perforated stamps in the Malta miniature sheet are inscribed MALTA; the Cyprus label in the diary refers to the subject.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR / Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Printex Limited
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- 35 × 35 mm
- Perforation
- 14.28 × 14.28 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedFirst day, denomination and basic issue membership are sourced. Independent specimen checks of technical attributes remain open.
- Contemporary postal diary, PSM 37(1), entry 2008-01-01 ↗
- Original MaltaPost joint-sheet illustration in contemporary announcement, both MALTA inscriptions and dual faces visually inspected ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Ordinary basic design/value types and documented major technical changes. Includes distinct miniature-sheet stamps; excludes unchanged sheet/booklet presentation, personalised labels, postal stationery, replicas, errors, plate states and minor varieties. Postage dues have a separate audit.