MALTA€0.59Mediterranean chameleonImage unavailable
2021MALTA€2.00Painted frogImage unavailable
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2021 / The natural world
Painted frog
Europa 2021: endangered national wildlife
Denomination€2.00
Issue date2021-05-12
The story behind the issue
The Mediterranean chameleon and painted frog represent Maltese wildlife.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- MaltaPost, photographs by Sean Dingli
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 44 × 31 mm
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The bilingual notice reverses the reported perforation axes (English 14.0 × 13.9; Maltese 13.9 × 14.0). The measurement is omitted pending independent confirmation.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Europa — endangered wildlife ↗
- SEPAC member product — Europa 2021 original pair; original specimen visually inspected ↗
- John V. De Battista, contemporary postal diary, PSM 51(1), postal diary, dated entries for 2021; printed pp.21–44 ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
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