MALTA€2.00Common octopusImage unavailable
2024MALTA€1.50Smooth starfishImage unavailable
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2024 / The natural world
Smooth starfish
Europa 2024: underwater fauna and flora
Denomination€1.50
Issue date2024-05-09
The story behind the issue
Two photographs depict a smooth starfish and a common octopus.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost p.l.c.
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Photographer
- Professor Alan Deidun
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 44 × 31 mm
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The member description explicitly maps both subjects to their printed values. Its misspelled scientific name for the starfish is not repeated. Unspecified printer, watermark and perforation remain unknown.
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.