MALTA€4.25Jean Parisot de la Valette and a map of VallettaImage unavailable
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2016 / Heritage
Jean Parisot de la Valette and a map of Valletta
Four hundred and fifty years since Valletta’s foundation
Denomination€4.25
Issue date2016-03-28
The story behind the issue
Four hundred and fifty years since Valletta’s foundation.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- 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.
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