2510. 🇬🇭 New Ghanaian Stamps To Commemorate The King Of Ashanti.

 

New issues -

🇬🇭 Ghana Post - 

2024 - 25th anniversary of the succession of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, King of Ashanti.

  Internet and press reports as well as a Ghana Post internet site have announced the issue or perhaps forthcoming issue of a number of stamps featuring the King of Ashanti. It is difficult to be sure from the the illustrations if some of these products take the form of ordinary stamps or miniature sheets but there is certainly a ‘crypto stamp’ among these products. The announcement was made at a dinner attended by King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II on 5 May 2024 and one report noted that “Five stamps were unveiled …including the definitive stamp, the Crypto stamp, the VIP stamp, the royal stamp frame and ad Post Cards …”.

  Another report stated that, “The stamps come in the form of a standard stamp, a commemorative stamp, crypto stamp, stamp album, framed gold stamp and post cards”. The Managing Director of Ghana Post stated, “We unveiled twelve stamps, of which eight are of a kind. We also unveiled crypto stamps, postal stamps, Otumfuo souvenirs and others”.

The Ghana Post internet site features the following products (readers will draw their own conclusions of the nature of each of the items at this stage where most are “pre-order”). Rating:- some of them might be worth a punt. Prices as stated on Ghana Post internet site - 

‘25 Years of Impact’  (price C90) - 

Crypto stamp (price C250) - 

‘Definitive stamps’ - 8 stamps (price C80) -

‘Embodiment of tradition’ - ?1 single stamp miniature sheet (price C20) -

‘Emissary of Peace’ - ?2 stamps or ?1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps (price C60) -

‘Enstoolment’ - ?1 stamp (price C30) - 

‘Embodiment of Culture’ - ?1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp (price C30)-

‘Gold framed stamp’ (price C100,000 - clearly not “worth a punt”) -

‘King, Golfer, Statesman, Philanthropist, Chancellor’ - ?6 stamps or ?1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps (price C90) - 

‘Manhyia Palace’ - ?1 stamp or ? 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp (price C30) -

‘Royal visits’ - ?5 stamps or ?1 miniature sheet containing 5 different stamps (price C60) - 

‘The King and Queen Mother’ (price C30) - 

‘VIP Box’  (price C7500) -

Postcards (price C300) -