MALTA€3.00Pope Benedict XVIImage unavailable
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2010 / Faith & tradition
Pope Benedict XVI
Visit of Pope Benedict XVI
Denomination€3.00
Issue date2010-04-17
The story behind the issue
A single stamp marks the papal visit to Malta.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- Paul Psaila
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 44 × 31 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 14.0 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The contemporary diary corrects the bulletin illustration’s erroneous 17 March date; the actual first day was 17 April.
Image & attribution
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Ordinary basic design/value types and documented major technical changes. Excludes postage dues, unchanged reprints, repeated packaging, personalised tabs, sheet-margin overprints, replica products, errors and minor varieties.
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