MALTA€0.45Santa Claus — first designImage unavailable
2024MALTA€0.45Infant Jesus holding a lambImage unavailable
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2024 / Faith & tradition
Infant Jesus holding a lamb
Christmas 2024
Denomination€0.45
Issue date2024-12-04
The story behind the issue
Five illustrations combine Christmas traditions and religious imagery.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost p.l.c.
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Marisa Attard
- 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 verifiedResearch notes: The expanded member description explicitly enumerates five €0.45 designs, including two different Santa Claus illustrations. Neutral first/second captions avoid inventing a specific visual distinction between those two designs.
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Distinct ordinary basic design/value types and documented major changes. Packaging copies, private personalised-label permutations, postal stationery, precious-metal replicas, unchanged reprints, errors and minor varieties excluded. 2026 is an issued-to-5-November snapshot, not a complete calendar year.