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Malta buses: the end of an era
Denomination€0.20
Issue date2011-07-02
The story behind the issue
Twenty route and vehicle portraits mark the withdrawal of the traditional bus fleet.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Cedric Galea Pirotta
- 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- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Malta buses — the end of an era ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 41(1), 2 July 2011, pp.42–43: all twenty value/route/vehicle mappings ↗
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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