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🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -
9 May 2025 - EUROPA - Archaeological discoveries - 2 setenant stamps and 1 booklet containing 4 pairs. Printed by Baltijas Banknote. Rating:- *****.
🇮🇳 India Post -
1 May 2025 - Birth centenaries of ‘Legends of Indian Cinema’, World Audio, Video Entertainment Summit (WAVES), Mumbai, 1 - 4 May - 1 miniature sheet containing 5 different stamps. Designed by Sh. Surash Kumar. Rating:- ****.
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🇸🇱 Products inscribed Sierra Leone -
It seems unlikely that the stated ‘date of issue’ is the date of the release of these products in Sierra Leone post offices if they are ever issued in that country. These products exist in both perforated and imperforate format. Caveat emptor. Rating:- 0.
15 January 2025 - Wildlife of Sierra Leone - 25 different stamps sold in a sheetlet of 16 (2 sets of the Le30:values) or in a miniature sheet of 8 (1 set of the Le40 values) and 1 miniature sheet containing a single example of the Le300 values.
Other products including 9 proof sheets were also released.
15 January 2025 - Fungi, Reptiles and Frogs of Sierra Leone - 18 surcharged values with the inscription ‘2023’ cancelled in red and replaced by ‘2025’ possibly obtained from 3 miniatures sheets, each one containing 6 different stamps.
15 January 2025 - Birds of China - 4 stamps available as singles or as a setenant strip of 4 obtained from sheetlets of 16 (4 of each design).
15 January 2025 - 75th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China -
9 different stamps obtained from 3 different miniature sheets, one containing 6 x identical Le50 stamps, one containing 5 x Le 80 stamps and the third containing a single Le300 stamp.
The overprints were 'probably' due to the revaluation of the currency. However, I suspect they were reprinted.
ReplyDeleteYes, though I think the surcharges were more to do with making money from philatelic products rather than because they were needed in Sierra Leone post offices.
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