MALTA€0.59Independence anniversaryImage unavailable
2014MALTA€3.00Republic anniversaryImage unavailable
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2014 / Heritage
Republic anniversary
Independence and Republic anniversaries
Denomination€3.00
Issue date2014-05-15
The story behind the issue
Reproduced Emvin Cremona designs mark fifty years of independence and forty years as a republic.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- MaltaPost, after Emvin Cremona
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 44 × 31 mm
- Perforation
- 14.1 × 13.9
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The official announcement misdates the earlier independence design to 1962; the contemporary diary identifies 1964. No obsolete denomination is treated as the face value of the 2014 stamp.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Independence and Republic anniversaries ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 43(3), 15 May 2014, pp.22–23 ↗
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.