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2021 / Historical figures
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte: bicentenary of his death
Denomination€5.00
Issue date2021-05-05
The story behind the issue
A miniature-sheet stamp commemorates Napoleon Bonaparte.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- MaltaPost
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 49 × 40.5 mm
- Perforation
- 14.2 × 14.2 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verified- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Napoleon bicentenary ↗
- John V. De Battista, contemporary postal diary, PSM 51(1), postal diary, dated entries for 2021; printed pp.21–44 ↗
Image & attribution
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