MALTA€0.59Olympic sporting figure — €0.59Image unavailable
2021MALTA€2.80Olympic sporting figure — €2.80Image unavailable
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2021 / Sport
Olympic sporting figure — €2.80
Olympic Games 2020
Denomination€2.80
Issue date2021-07-23
The story behind the issue
Three stylised sporting figures celebrate the Tokyo Games held in 2021.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Aidan Cassar
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- 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 verifiedThe denomination identifies this design; a more specific subject caption has not been verified.
Research notes: The official issue title retains 2020, but the stamps were released on 23 July 2021.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Olympic Games 2020 ↗
- SEPAC member product — Olympic Games original three-stamp set; 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
Ordinary basic design/value types and source-supported major technical changes. Excludes postage dues, unchanged reprints, packaging repeats, private personalised labels, postal stationery, replicas, errors and minor varieties.