Best Europa stamp 2014 - Jury prize

Belgium

The 2014 Best Europa stamp - Jury prize was awarded this week-end in Brussels’ town hall.

This was the fourth edition of this neutral and artistic prize.

Eight 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 Belgium with the following stamp :

2nd – Finland (second stamp)

3rd - San Marino (0.70 € value)

This year's Jury was composed of:

• Jürgen Haepers, Philatelist expert, europa-stamps.blogspot.com, Switzerland
• Stefan Klein, Designer, Germany
• Olaf Neumann, Designer, Germany
• Guy Coutant, Pro Post, Belgium
• Arie Piet, Enschedé Printing, the Netherlands
• Marc Taraskoff, Designer, France
• Botond Szebeny, PostEurop's Secretary General, Hungary
• Andrée Trommer, General secretary of the Fédération internationale de philatélie (FIP), Luxembourg

Luxembourg - Sepac 2014

Luxembourg - Sepac

Date of Issue: 29th September 2014

one stamp (0.85 €) out of a set of three stamps

Sepac stamps 2014

Europe - Sepac

Sepac 2014
"Flowers"

20.01.2014 Greenland - 1 stamp (13.- DKK) 
26.02.2014 Faroe Is. - 1 stamp (14.50 DKK) 
08.05.2014 Åland - 1 stamp (europa value) 
08.05.2014 Iceland - 1 stamp (50g inland value) out of a set of 2 stamps
28.05.2014 Guernsey - 1 stamp (INT letter 20g value) out of a set of 6 stamps
02.06.2014 Liechtenstein - 1 stamp (1.- CHF) out of a set of 3 stamps 
14.06.2014 Monaco - 1 stamp (0.83 €) 
27.06.2014 Malta - 1 stamp (0.59 €) out of a set of 3 stamps 
30.06.2014 Jersey - 1 stamp (0.69 GBP) out of a set of 8 stamps 
15.07.2014 Gibraltar - 1 stamp (0.54 GBP) out of a set of 7 stamps 
16.07.2014 Isle of Man - 1 stamp (0.75 GBP) 
23.09.2014 Luxembourg - 1 stamp (0.85 €) 

no issue of San Marino this year
no issue of Vatican this year

Best Sepac stamp 2013

Europe

The Sepac organized an on line voting in order to select the best Sepac stamp 2013

Here are the results of this voting :

1. Greenland 2013
2. Isle of Man 2013
3. Faroe Islands 2013

 

It's the first time that Greenland wins that competition. The Faroe Islands won the first two contests, in 2007-09 and 2011.

Best Europa stamp 2014 competition

Europe

On the 9th of May - Europe Day - PostEurop launched this year's best Europa stamp competition !

you can vote until the 31st of August for the most beautiful Europa stamp 2014 !

The winning stamps (top 3) will be announced at the PostEurop Plenary Assembly to be held on 24 Septembre 2014 in San Marino.

Great Britain 2014

Great Britain

Date of Issue 18th September 2014

one stamp (1st class value GBP) out of a set of 6 stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Europa logo)

Ukraine 2014

Ukraine

Date of Issue: 25th July 2014

two stamps (4.80 & 5.70 UAH)

both stamps are issued in mini sheets of 10 stamps with a vignette

both stamps are issued in booklet of 2 souvenir-sheets

NOTE -the final version of the "Kobza"stamp has a value of 5.70 UAH although the first draft of the stamp showed a value of 3.30 UAH

Gibraltar - Sepac 2014

Gibraltar - Sepac

Date of Issue: 15th July 2014

one stamp (0.54 GBP) out of a set of seven stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Sepac logo)

Isle of Man - Sepac 2014

Isle of Man - Sepac

Date of Issue: 16th July 2014

one stamp (0.75 GBP)

Sepac folder 2014

Europe - Sepac

"Beautiful corners of Europe 5", this special folder contains the 12 Sepac stamps to be issued this year.

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

Malta - Sepac 2014

Malta - Sepac

Date of Issue: 27th June 2014

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

this stamp is issued in a mini sheet of 10 stamps

Armenian post of Nagorno-Karabakh 2014

Armenian post of Nagorno-Karabakh

Date of Issue: 10th July 2014

two stamps (240.- & 500.- AMD)

both stamps are issued in mini-sheets of 10 stamps

both stamp are issued in a mini-sheet of 8 stamps (four of each) + 2 vignette

NOTE : the stamps issued by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic aren't recognized on an international level, not by the UPU nor by PostEurop.

Those stamps are listed in most stamps catalogues (Gibbons, Yvert & Tellier, Michel) and most Europa stamps collectors collect those stamps even if they aren't official stamp issues.

Jersey - Sepac 2014

Jersey - Sepac

Date of Issue: 30th June 2014

one stamp (0.69 GBP) out of a set of eight stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Sepac logo)

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

Andorra (French post) 2014

Andorra (French post)

Date of Issue: 24th May 2014

one stamp (0.80 €)

Monaco - Sepac 2014

Monaco - Sepac

Date of Issue: 14th June 2014

one stamp (0.80 €)

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

Macedonia 2014

Macedonia

Date of Issue: 4th June 2014

two stamps (40.- & 50.- MKD) and one souvenir-sheet (60.- MKD)

both stamps are issued in mini-sheets 9 stamps

a booklet of 4 stamps (4x 50.- MKD) is also issued - NOTE the stamps from the booklet have a different design