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2017MALTA€2.19Gourgion TowerImage unavailable
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2017 / Places & architecture
Gourgion Tower
Europa — Castles
Denomination€2.19
Issue date2017-05-09
The story behind the issue
Two defensive towers.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Cedric Galea Pirotta
- Printer
- Printex Limited
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 44 × 31 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 14 (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.
Research notes: Release is9May2017, confirmed by first-day handstamp; the announcement incorrectly calls this dateMonday.
- MaltaPost contemporary issue announcement ↗
- John V. De Battista, contemporary postal diary, PSM 47(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.