MALTA€0.45Golden horse — Maria Christina BugejaImage unavailable
2026MALTA€1.91Reddish-brown horse — Fang JunImage unavailable
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2026 / Culture & books
Reddish-brown horse — Fang Jun
Year of the Horse 2026
Denomination€1.91
Issue date2026-02-09
The story behind the issue
Two horse illustrations combine Maltese and Chinese cultural motifs.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost p.l.c.
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Fang Jun
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 35 × 35 mm
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The member text maps each artist to a denomination. The lunar New Year celebration date of 17 February is not substituted for the published stamp first day of 9 February.
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.