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2026 / Culture & books
Christ Pantocrator, St George’s Basilica
Euromed 2026: traditional mosaics
Denomination€3.00
Issue date2026-07-13
The story behind the issue
Two miniature-sheet stamps contrast Roman and Neo-Byzantine mosaic traditions.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost p.l.c.
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Photographer
- Sebio Aquilina
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Not documented
- 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 verifiedResearch notes: The published stamp size is 35 × 35 mm; the surrounding miniature sheets are 80 × 80 mm. The two sheet values correspond to the two individually described stamp designs. MaltaPost's original issue technical table specifies 13.75 × 13.75 comb perforation and Maltese-cross watermark for the stamps.
- MaltaPost member issue on SEPAC — Euromed — traditional mosaics ↗
- MaltaPost Philately, Euromed 2026 Traditional Mosaics in the Mediterranean, original issue dated 13 July 2026: technical table ↗
Image & attribution
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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.