MALTA€0.20Historical map of Malta — €0.20Image unavailable
2021MALTA€0.50Historical map of Malta — €0.50Image unavailable
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2021 / Heritage
Historical map of Malta — €0.50
SEPAC 2021: historical maps of Malta
Denomination€0.50
Issue date2021-05-28
The story behind the issue
Four historical maps illustrate changing representations of the Maltese islands.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- MaltaPost, images supplied by the Malta Map Society
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 42 × 31 mm
- Perforation
- 13.8 × 13.7 (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.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — SEPAC — historical maps ↗
- SEPAC member product — Historical maps original complete 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.