MALTA€0.42Olympic Games — Rio de Janeiro — €0.42Image unavailable
2016MALTA€1.55Olympic Games — Rio de Janeiro — €1.55Image unavailable
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2016 / Sport
Olympic Games — Rio de Janeiro — €1.55
Olympic Games — Rio de Janeiro
Denomination€1.55
Issue date2016-08-05
The story behind the issue
Shooting, swimming, athletics and weightlifting; precise subject-to-value mapping remains under review.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Sean Cini
- Printer
- Printex Limited
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 35 × 35 mm
- Perforation
- 13.75 × 13.75 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedFirst day, face value and basic issue membership are sourced. Independent specialist checks of paper, gum, perforation and watermark varieties remain open.
- MaltaPost contemporary issue announcement ↗
- John V. De Battista, contemporary postal diary, PSM 46(1) ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Ordinary basic design/value types and documented major physical changes. Repeated miniature-sheet or booklet copies, personalised non-postal labels, sheet surrounds, replicas, errors and minor varieties are excluded. Postage dues are separately audited.