Finland 2009

Finland

Date of Issue: 6th May 2009

two stamps (2x 0.80 €)

both stamps are issued in a mini-sheet of 10 stamps (two of each)

50 years Europa CEPT

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Europa 1956-2006
"50 years Europa CEPT"

In 2005 & 2006 several postal administrations issued stamps to commemorate the 50 years of the 1st Europa stamps issue.

Those stamps bared the CEPT logo and a special 50 years logo produced and used only for those commemorative issues.

Many countries, not only in Europe but also all around the World issued stamps for this event.

Here under you'll find the list of the European countries who took part at this issue.

01.10.2005 Albania - 2 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet (200.-, 250.-, 500.- ALL)
28.03.2006 Armenia - 4 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (4x 70.-, 4x 70.- AMD)
03.03.2006 Austria - 1 stamp (1.25 €)
25.10.2005 Azerbaijan - 4 stamps + 4 souvenir-sheets (those stamps exists also unperforated) (4x 3'000.- AZM)

30.11.2005 Bosnia and Herzegovina - 4 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (those stamps exists also unperforated) (4x 3.- BAM)
15.01.2006 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croat post) 4 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (4x 2.-, 4x 2.- BAM)
30.08.2005 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serb post) - 4 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (4x 1.95, 4x 1.95 BAM)
28.05.2005 Bulgaria - 2 stamps (45.- & 80.- BGL)

08.09.2005 Croatia - 1 souvenir-sheet of 2 stamps (same stamps issued in sheets)) (7.20 & 8.- HRK)
23.02.2006 Cyprus - 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (4x 0.30 CYP)
06.01.2006 Cyprus (Turkish post) - 1 souvenir-sheet of 2 stamps (2x 1.40 YTL) (those stamps exists also unperforated)

04.01.2006 Estonia - 1 stamp + 1 souvenir-sheet (6.- + 6.50 EEK)

30.09.2005 Gibraltar - 1 stamp (5.- GBP) [!!!]
30.01.2006 Georgia - 4 stamps + 4 souvenir sheets of 1 stamp (those stamps exists also unperforated) (10.-, 20.-, 30.- 40.- + 4x 80.- GEL)
10.01.2006 Greece - 1 souvenir-sheet of 2 stamps
16.01.2006 Greenland - 1 stamp (26.50 DKK)

02.02.2006 Iceland - 1 souvenir-sheet of 2 stamps (2x 150.- ISK)
02.05.2006 Isle of Man - 1 souvenir-sheet of 2 stamps (0.42 & 0.83 GBP)

07.01.2006 Latvia - 4 stamps issued in sheets and 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (0.10, 2x 0.15, 0.20 + 0.10, 2x 0.15, 0.20 LVL)

14.11.2005 Macedonia - 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (also mini-sheets of 8 stamps) (60.-, 170.-, 250.-, 350.- MKD)
03.01.2006 Malta - 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (0.05, 0.13, 0.23, 0.24 MTL)
20.07.2005 Moldova - 2 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet of 2 stamps (1.50 & 15.- & 1.50 & 15.- MDL)
03.01.2006 Montenegro - 4 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps + 1 unperf block (0.50, 1.-, 2x 2.- + 0.50, 1.-, 2x 2.- + 5.50 €)

22.08.2005 Romania - 4 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet (same stamps issued in sheets) (those stamps exists also unperforated) (4x 4.70 RON)

31.03.2005 Serbia and Montenegro - 2 souvenir-sheets of 4 stamps each (4x 16.50 & 4x 41.50 YUD)
20.05.2005 Slovenia - 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (4x 60.- SIT)

15.12.2005 Turkey - 4 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps unperforated (0.60, 0.70, 0.80, 1.- + 0.10, 0.25, 0.60, 0.70 + 0.10, 0.25, 0.60, 0.70 TRL)

05.01.2006 Ukraine - 2 stamps + 1 souvenir-sheet of 2 stamps (1.30, 2.50 + 1.30, 2.50 UAH)

2nd europa stamps blog poll

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2nd europa stamps blog poll

Result of the Grand final !

Åland is our winner ! With 60% of the votes they are the clear winner of this 2nd europa stamps blog poll !

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1. Åland
2. Ukraine (247 UAH stamp)
   
3. Iceland (85 ISK stamp)
   

I am curious to see if our winner will be the same as the one of PostEurop... results on the 27th November !

Thanks to all who took part to the voting during those last weeks !!

Armenian post of Nagorno-Karabakh 2008

Armenian post of Nagorno-Karabakh

Date of Issue: 28th October 2008

three stamps (120.-, 350.- & 550.- AMD)

those stamps are published in mini-sheets of 10 stamps


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 the most stamps catalogue (Gibbons, Yvert & Tellier, Michel) and most Europa stamps collectors collect those stamps anyway, I decided to publish them on my blog, from now on, even if they aren't official stamp issues.

Europa stamp t-shirt !

Åland

Ever dreamt of wearing a Europa stamp t-shirt ?

Posten Åland made your dream come true. You can buy on their webshop the following t-shirt in sizes M - L - XL for the price of 8.90 €



The design on the t-shirt is taken from the Europa stamp issue of 2006 "Integration as seen by young people"

Europa stamps logo - R problems !

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Eric on his blog "Blog timbré de ma philatélie", made a strange discovery concerning the Europa logo !



On some of this year's issues, the "R" of the word Europa seemed unusual ! And he was right !

The Europa logo on the Europa stamps of the Czech republic, Malta and Moldova is different than the official one ! The letter "R" has a left "leg" on those stamps but on the official logo this leg isn't designed !



I looked up in my album if the problem is new or not, and I was surprised to discover that Malta is using a wrong logo since 2002 ! The even won that year the contest of "Best Europa stamp" ! Moldova since 1995 (!) and this year is the first time the Czech republic is using the wrong logo.

I agree with Eric's question on his blog "Why does the PostEurop organization not require a European uniformity about this logo ?", How can it be possible that an official logo is depicted differently on some stamps ?

Again the interest in making profit with those Europa stamps issues induce a lack of quality and serious in some issues unfortunately.

Cyprus (Turkish post) 2008

Cyprus (Turkish post)

Date of Issue: 8th May 2008

two stamps (2x 0.80 YTL)


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.

But as most Europa stamps collectors collect those stamps anyway, I decided to publish them on my blog, from now on, even if they aren't official stamp issues.