Denmark - Norden 2020

Denmark - Norden

Date of Issue: 2nd January 2020

five stamps (5x 10.- DKK)

Finland 2020

Finland

Date of Issue: 6th May 2020

one stamp (international value = 1.70 €) - NOTE this stamp is self-adhesive

this stamp is issued in a mini-sheet of 10 stamps

Best Europa stamp 2019 - Public prize

Armenia

Armeia is the winner of the 2019 Best Europa stamp contest organised by PostEurop. Turkey finished second and Finland is third.

1. ARMENIA
2. TURKEY
3. FINLAND

It's the second time Armenia wins the best Europa stamp contest. The first win was in 2007, it was also the first year the contest became an online voting open to everybody !

The Best Europa stamp design competition is a yearly event. The first competition took place in 2002. All official Europa stamp issues can enter the competition.

The result of this competition was announced during this PostEurop's Plenary Assembly held last week in Jersey.

The stamp has been selected via the internet ! All people could vote through PostEurop's website !

Here is the announcement on Armenia's postal administration website.

A jury of 6 members (stamp designers, philatelic design directors, stamp collectors) awarded earlier this year, the Best Europa stamp - Jury prize to Slovenia !


Here you can find the full list of winning stamps since the first contest in 2002 when Malta won.

Italy 2019

Italy

Date of Issue: 4th October 2019

two stamps (B & B50g value = 1.10 & 2.60 €) - NOTE both stamps are self-adhesive

Azerbaijan 2019

Azerbaijan

Date of Issue: 27th September 2019

two stamps (0.50 & 0.60 AZN) & one souvenir-sheet (1.50 AZN)

both stamps are issued mini-sheets of 10 stamps

both stamps are issued in a booklet of 8 stamps (4 of each). The stamps of the booklet are printed "tête-bêche" and are unperforated on one side.

Sepac folder 2019

Europe - Sepac

"Historic homes of Europe 10", this special folder contains the 11 Sepac stamps issued in 2019.

This folder will be on sale by any of the Sepac countries philatelic offices !

Isle of Man - Sepac 2019

Isle of Man - Sepac

Date of Issue: 1st July 2019

one stamp (1.10 GPB) out of a set of 6 stamps (only this stamp bears the Sepac logo)

this stamp is issued in a mini-sheet of 9 stamps

Best Europa stamp 2019 - Jury prize

Slovenia

The 2019 Best Europa stamp - Jury prize was awarded last Saturday in Brussels’ town hall.

This was the 8th edition of this neutral and artistic prize.

Six experts of the philatelic world were invited to join the jury and judge the Europa stamps based on their expert opinion.

This year's winner is Slovenia with a stamp part of a 2 stamps set - it's the first time that Slovenia wins the Jury prize !

2nd – Liechtenstein (stamp under)
3rd - Finland (stamp under)

This year's Jury was composed as follow (from the left to the right) :

• Antonio Manuel Amaral, PostEurop's coordinator (not part of the jury)
• Guy Coutant, Pro Post, Belgium (co-chair)
• Botond Szebeny, PostEurop's Secretary General, Hungary (co-chair)
• Andrée Trommer, General secretary of the Fédération internationale de philatélie (FIP), Luxembourg
• Stefan Klein, Stamp designer, Germany
• Arie Piet, Director Stamp Printing National Bank Belgium, the Netherlands
• Olaf Neumann, Stamp designer, Germany

The winner of the public prize will be announced during PostEurop's plenary assembly in Jersey, in October.

Sepac stamps 2019

Europe - Sepac

Sepac 2019
"Old residential houses"

25.02.2019 Faroe Islands - 1 stamp (19.- DKK)
07.05.2019 Luxembourg - 1 stamp (1.05 €)
09.05.2019 Åland - 1 stamp (Europa value = 1.50 €) 
11.06.2019 Jersey - 1 stamp (0.80 GBP) out of a set of six stamps
20.06.2019 Monaco - 1 stamp (0.86)
21.06.2019 Greenland - 1 stamp (17.- DKK) 
01.07.2019 Isle of Man - 1 stamp (1.10 GBP) out of a set of six stamps
24.07.2019 Guernsey - 1 stamp issued in a souvenir-sheet of three stamps
30.07.2019 Malta - 1 stamp (0.59 €) out of a set of four stamps
02.09.2019 Liechtenstein - 1 stamp (1.50 CHF)
12.09.2019 Iceland - 1 stamp (50g to Europe = 225 ISK)

no issue Gibraltar 
no issue Vatican

Georgia 2019

Georgia

Date of Issue: 20th August 2019

two stamps (2x 2.40 GEL) & one souvenir-sheet (2x 2.40 GEL)

both stamps are issued in mini-sheets of 10 stamps

Malta - Sepac 2019

Malta - Sepac

Date of Issue: 30th July 2019

one stamp (0.59 €) out of a set of four stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Sepac logo).

this stamp is issued in a mini sheet of 10 stamps

Liechtenstein - Sepac 2019

Liechtenstein - Sepac

Date of Issue: 2nd September 2019

one stamp (1.50 CHF)

this stamp is issued in a mini-sheet of 10 stamps

Special 2019 Europa folder issued by 6 countries

Europe

After, the four first issues of this kind :  2013 (theme - "The postman van") ; 2016 (theme - "Ecology in Europe - Think Green" ; 2017 (theme - Castles) and 2018 (theme - Bridges)

6 countries - Austria - Germany - Liechtenstein - Luxembourg - the Netherlands and Switzerland - issued a common "Multilaterale" folder containing this year's Europa stamps from the six countries (10 stamps).

This folder can be ordered by any of the 6 postal administrations.

Europa stamps video

Europe

The Exploring stamps YouTube channel dedicated an episode to the Europa stamps ! Watch it here and tell me in the comments what you think of it !!

Europa stamps themes 2019-2022

Europe

Common themes for the coming years

• 2019 : National birds - read the press release of PostEurop - "National birds are native birds living on the territory of a country"


• 2020 : Ancient postal routes - "postal services, meaning the exchange of items over longer distances, put in place in a country or between countries before they were replaced by postal services operated by Governments and offering universal service (example: Thurn and Taxis)."


• 2021 : Endangered national wildlife


• 2022 : Stories and Myths

Proposals for themes 2021-2022 : In November we announced that PostEurop members could send their proposals at latest by 31 December 2018. For the first time the choice of subjects was also open to all stamp collectors !
In June this year, the PostEurop Stamp & Philately working group have gone through the results of the voting collected from the PostEurop members. In total, 36 Members gave in their votes, totalling 210 points. The competition was very tight...

You can read the press release of PostEurop informing about the choice of the 2021 & 2022 common themes.

Guernsey - Sepac 2019

Guernsey - Sepac

Date of Issue: 24th July 2019

one stamp (0.80 GBP) issued in a souvenir-sheet of 3 stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Sepac logo).

Greenland - Sepac 2019

Greenland - Sepac

Date of Issue: 21st June 2019

one stamp (17.- DKK)

this stamp is issued in a mini-sheet of 10 stamps

Cyprus (Turkish post) 2019

Cyprus (Turkish post)

Date of Issue: 20th June 2019

two stamps (2x 5.25 YTL)

both stamps are also issued in a mini-sheet of 8 stamps (4 stamps of each)

NOTE : the stamps issued by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus aren't recognized on an international level, not by the UPU nor by PostEurop.