MALTA€3.00Dun Karm Psaila — lyricist, left stampImage unavailable
2022Centenary of the first performance of Malta’s National Anthem
Dun Karm Psaila — lyricist, left stamp
€3.00
MALTA€3.00Robert Samut — composer, right stampImage unavailable
Image permission not established
2022 / Culture & books
Robert Samut — composer, right stamp
Centenary of the first performance of Malta’s National Anthem
Denomination€3.00
Issue date2022-12-27
The story behind the issue
Two different €3 portrait stamps in one miniature sheet commemorate the anthem’s lyricist and composer.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- MaltaPost plc
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 31 × 44 mm
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedBasic issue date, denomination and design are sourced. Independent specialist verification of paper, gum, watermark and perforation varieties remains open.
Research notes: The postal-administration account dates the first public performance to 27 December 1922. The miniature sheet contains two €3 stamps, not one €6 stamp.
- SEPAC postal-administration issue page and original stamp illustration ↗
- SEPAC postal-administration account of the anthem issue ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Ordinary basic design/value types, including distinct miniature-sheet stamps. Repeated stamps in packs, booklets and sheet surrounds, personalised non-postal labels, unchanged reprints, errors and minor varieties are excluded. This is not an exhaustive specialist-variety claim.