AN INDEPENDENT ARCHIVE OF MALTESE STAMPS POSTAGE SINCE 1860 · MALTA & GOZO
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2010 / Sport

Zakumi and the South African flag

Football World Cup 2010

Denomination€2.50
Issue date2010-06-11
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The story behind the issue

A sequence of national flags and the mascot Zakumi mark the tournament.

Technical details

Issuing authority
MaltaPost plc
Postal purpose
Postage
Currency
EUR
Designer
Frank Azzopardi
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 verified

Research notes: The miniature sheet repeats the two stamps. No documented physical difference justifies extra detached-stamp types.

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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