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2012 / Heritage
Byzantine gold coin
Historical definitives: additional values
Denomination€0.20
Issue date2012-03-07
The story behind the issue
New denominations and background colours extend the historical definitive issue.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- MaltaPost, in-house
- 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: These are new denominations and colours, not duplicates of the 2009 stamps. Official and diary print quantities disagree for €0.20; quantities are omitted.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Definitive additional values ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 42(2), 7 March 2012, pp.4 onward ↗
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.