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2014 / Faith & tradition
Pope John XXIII
Canonisation of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II
Denomination€0.26
Issue date2014-04-26
The story behind the issue
Two portraits mark the canonisation of the popes.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- 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 verified- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Canonisation of the popes ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 43(3), 26 April 2014 ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
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.